It would be great if there would simply be a "Standard: [ANT 1.9]" selection box in Jenkins' ANT installations section, so I could avoid manually installing it! :-)
Am Dienstag, 22. Oktober 2013 16:08:01 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Beck: > > I used the tool whose version is least significant in most of my jobs as > example, but as you're facing the exact same situation with Ant, it applies > as well. > > That's basically the use case: You install Ant system-wide (e.g. from your > Linux distro's repository), it's put into your PATH (possibly > automatically), and that'll get used by Jenkins as the default version. No > matter what node you build on, it uses the system-wide default Ant > installation. > > If you still want Jenkins to install it, but still don't care about the > version, just define an installation, call it 'Any Ant', and select _any_ > of the auto-installer choices, configure your jobs to use it, and be done > with it. Or redefine PATH (or even just ANT_HOME?) on the node level. > > On 22.10.2013, at 12:24, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > Are you sure you are talking about ANT? It sounds like you talk about > JDK. > > > > Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2013 18:55:22 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Beck: > > The 'default' tool version uses whatever is the preferred version on the > node's PATH. In this case, there is none. > > > > This can be useful when you don't care about the Java version used in a > job, and have the executing node use its default installation without > having to configure the path for every node, or an auto-installer. > > > > On 18.10.2013, at 10:56, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > I have installed Jenkins 1.514 and told it to automatically provide > solely ANT 1.9.2 from Apache. So there is only ANT 1.9.2 on Master and no > other ANT installation. > > > Then I created a project with the "Run Ant" build task and explicitly > specified to use "ANT 1.9.2" in the "ANT version" configuration line. > > > The project builds very well. > > > > > > Then I removed "ANT 1.9.2" and replaced it by "Standard". > > > The project does not build now. It says I have to configure the ANT > version in the job config. > > > > > > This is weird. What is "Standard" good for, if it neither > automatically chooses the sole ANT installation found on Master, nor allows > me to configure "ANT 1.9.2" to be "Standard"? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > -Markus > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
