Kirk - thanks for the kind words!
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 03:16 PM, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:As for involvement here, I admit to being a lurker :)
We're still waiting for your classloader fixes for Ant that we discussed last November :)) (i.e. making it so junit.jar is not needed in the classpath running Ant).
well.. believe it or not.. it's still on my todo stack. But since we are on the subject... here is how I was planning on doing it.
Since diddling with a fully configured, loaded and running classloader can really blow you out of the water, I wanted to take some time to think about this (yeah that's it... think time). Here is what I'd purpose doing.
1) Verify that ANT is contained with-in it's own classloader.
2) add a method to the classloader to expose the currently protected method used to add classpath elements. At issue here is that if different threads pick the same things up from different classloaders, you'll end up with some expection being thrown such as a class not found which can be confusing because when you go to check you classapth, you'll find the class 8^) Danger, having jUnit on the classpath and then having it show up in configuration BAD!!!
3) add a new property type known as jar. It would look something like
<property jar="${root.to.jar}/junit.jar"/> This would have to reached and acted upon before any references were made to the junit (or other) classes.
As an alternative to point 3, we could add an attribute to the taskdef task.
Opinions, suggestions.... concert schedule????
either way, this looks so incredibly simple that I think that I'll move it up the stack.
Erik
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Cheers, Kirk
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