On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:17, Leif Mortenson wrote: > What about adding an init task to the builds which checks for the pressence > of all required jars. If any are missing then the build will fail with a > message telling them to run 'ant update-ant-jars'. This task would > automatically download and install all of the required jars from our server > and install them into the correct ant directories. The user then reruns > and and everything will work. Is there a way to have ant check the dates > of the required files? It would be nice if the build could tell users to > rerun the update whenever any of the required jar versions are changed as > well.
I would seriously think about strangling anyone who tried to update my ant installation in the build process. I don't think this is the solution. Hopefully the BUILDING.txt instructions should help a little though. > Thoughts? This was actually Ryan's idea? (You had asked him if he was a > committer the other day. I would be +1 :-) So would I ;) > > junitperf.jar shouldn't be needed ... but the rest of them are. > > junitperf.jar could probably be added in wherever it is needed. It is an > > unfortunate "feature" of ant that these need to be in the same > > classloader as the rest of the task. > > There are a few tests in the all subproject that use it. True but it sjhould not need to go int ant/lib - it should just bereferenced from whatever project needs it via properties. -- Cheers, Pete ------------------------------ Kitsch never goes out of style ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
