That's what we used forehead for in Maven. See http://forehead.werken.com/ -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/04/2003 11:01:37 AM: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
