Peter Donald wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:42, Charles Benett wrote: > > > > Here's why: as currently written, I think, if you already have ANT_HOME > > > > defined then the build script won't use jakarta-avalon/tools/lib and so > > > > will miss optional.jar. (Which makes the junit task fail in excalibur). > > > > > > > > Either we can make the scripts more complicated to check for junit in a > > > > pre-existing ANT_HOME or we can simply tell people that they need to > > > > download and install ant with junit. Then we can remove the build > > > > scripts and execute the buildfile by invoking 'ant' directly. > > > > > > alternatively we can go > > > > > > unset ANT_HOME > > > > > > in each script? > > > > save-unset-reset? > > I'd still prefer not to include ant. > > I would prefer not include *any* jars at all. But I am also lazy ... and I > know others are aswell ... so until something easy comes along we live with > the pain is my vote. > > Geir (from velocity) was/is working on jjan (cjan for java) which solves 50% > of the puzzle. If/when he finishes that I am willing to work on a ld.so for > java in which case I would be +1000000000000000000 for removing ant and all > jars. Until then though .... >
Oh, well, I've just committed a change to the ant script that seems to do the trick Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
