From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jose Alberto, > > > > I have the following problems with your proposal: > > > > 1. It assumes that jars used by Ant should be placed into sub-directories > of > > the Ant install directory. I know Ant is the centre of the Universe but I > > don't think we should be encouraging everything to end up in there. I know > > this happens today with the lib directory. I'm not happy about that but I > > think this proposal will just magnify the problem. > > IMHO the best solution it to consider a totally different directory from > Ant's one. > > The problem came up with the development of a starter-project build with Ant > and Cocoon called Krysalis Centipede http://www.krysalis.org . It's still in > early stages, but I've already come up with something quite usable, and the > new POI project at Jakarta is using it. >
There is nothing stoping you from putting your libraries somewhere else as long as you are willing to use <antlib> to load them. > I need to make it easy to upgrade Ant: if the Ant dirs are clean, ie only > with ant files, I can just ask to put the new Ant there and no modification > is necessary. > This is in escence what we want to do. If you want easy upgrading, do not put third party jars in the autoload directory, use <antlib> instead. The effect is exactly the same. Jose Alberto > Thank you for the work you are all doing on Ant, it's WAY COOL! :-) > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
