Hi Diane!
First of all thanks for your quick reply. Your hint with <taskdef> helped
me a lot!
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Diane Holt wrote:
> Not all optional.jar's include the same tasks. The <depend> task was added
> after the 1.2 release, so it's not among the tasks included in the
> optional.jar that was bundled with 1.2.
> [...]
I was looking in
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.2/bin/
and there is indeed an optional.jar that includes the <depend> task. I
gave that a try, and at least creating dependencies seemed to work.
Greetings,
Holger