> > If you use ant to copy a file and supply a url, doesn't do > > the normally checking if the local version is the same and > > if not - it does a remote download. I would prefer this to > > a build failure. > > That would be best for building Excalibur, but I wasn't sure if > we should be modifying files in their ant directory without > asking them. Or is there a way to keep them in the Excalibur > directory and have Ant load them?
The only time you need to include files into Ant (i.e. Ant/lib) is when you want the convenience of not having to declare an ant task that your dependent on. I would not want a build procedure to automatically add anything to my ant/lib directory, however, its possible to declare an ant task within the build script - the ant task declaration can be dependent on a another target that loads jars into a build-local directory before executing the tasks definition, before invoking the extended task. Does that address the problem (or should I go off to the cafe for an hour or two) :-) Cheers, Steve. p.s. Just for reference, in the Merlin package I'm providing a target through which a user can explicitly add avalon-framework.jar, logkit.jar and merlin.jar to the ant/lib directory. The demos need this because merlin.jar is dependent on the framework - etc. and targets executed by the Merlin load task are also dependent on the framework. It's possible to avoid this but it means duplicate definitions of classpaths for both the task def and for the task instance (which is just plain painful). My solution in the enterprise suite is to provide a demo task that presumes that ant/lib dependencies are installed, but checks if this is the case and if not - prints out a nice little message telling the user to invoke the "export" target to update ant/lib. SJM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
