Hi Pierre On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted, > > You could say that the included ant functionality is IDE agnostic. You can, > of course, tweak your IDE of choice to include the jars in its class path. > Thanks
> Please take into consideration that OFBiz is not just a framework for > developers, but also a solution for SME business owners who often are > agnostic to the whole IDE aspect. > I appreciate this. Most of the business people I know are so 'technologically challenged' that they'd need to hire at least a sysadmin, or perhaps a developer, to build and deploy it. Their eyes tend to glaze over in incomprehension the moment the discussion becomes technical. I will adjust my installation of Eclipse to include the system's java directory in it's default class path, but I do not know how to do that with ant. I am used to Gnu make, and with that, one does not need to add system libraries as it already knows where they are and can use them; and it is trivial to add my own library folders to the include and library search paths. Now, when I talk to hard core Java programmers, they tell me that ant was developed as an improvement over make, so I'd expect that there's a way to tell it where the system's jar files are (unless ant can tell what distribution of which OS it is running on and can deduce from that where the system files are. My question was more one of how to do it rather than questioning why it wasn't done. Cheers Ted > Regards, > > Pierre > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > >> Op 13 jun. 2014 om 19:43 heeft Ted Byers <[email protected]> het >> volgende geschreven: >> >> Thanks Jacques and Adrian, >> >> I know the drives have to be in the class path. >> >> I didn't realize that I could use those ant targets to download them. >> >> But, I see both drives already installed, along with a large number of >> other jar files (e.g. junit4, log4j, &c.), in /usr/share/java. The >> question is two fold. Why doesn't ant, or Eclipse, include that >> directory in its class path? And, can either be compelled to include >> that directory in the class path? If so, how? Is there a downside to >> doing so? >> >> Thanks >> >> Ted >>
