On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:05 am, Dominique Devienne wrote: > How so Conor? I must have missed it on ant-dev. Could you please explain > how this will be solved in Ant 1.6 please? Or point me to the appropriate > thread somewhere? Thanks, --DD >
OK, the problem I will try to fix is that the classpath construction in Ant currently can lead to enormous command lines. This occurs when ANT_HOME is deeply nested in the directory tree and is exacerbated in Ant 1.6 with the production of many more Ant related jars than Ant 1.5 The strategy I would use would be to run a small launcher which would create a URLClassLoader to actually launch Ant proper. This avoids the long command lines entirley and would allow for the elimination of lcp.bat and also potentially do away with some complexity in the ant batch files. This was discussed in the thread where we talked about no longer supporting JDK 1.1 One of the main things such a move gives us is access to the URLClassLoader to solve this problem. I'm not sure how this will affect Gump just yet (it may not since Gump launches Ant's main class directly) and therefore the changes to Gump are probably a good thing anyway. Does that help? -- Conor MacNeill Blog: http://codefeed.com/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
