Hi, I have been giving some thought on ways to solve this nagging issue of needing to put antlib jars on the lib directory.
We hear over and over people wanting to keep their third party libraries out of -lib because they are only for an specific project. As I see it, our road block has been how to tell in succinct way in the buildfile that when loading the namespace "antlib:foo.bar" you should use this or that classpath or classloader. A simple solution could be to achieve this by name association: - When ANT tries to find and load the resource for "antlib:foo.bar" it will first look for a reference named "foo.bar" representing a classloader (or classpath?). If an object of the correct type is found, then this classloader will be user for resolving and loadding the antlib, otherwise the default classloader will be use, as it is today. So with this in place, one could write things like: <project name="x" xmlns:lib="antlib:foo.bar"> <classpath id="foo.bar">.....</classpath> <lib:mytask ..../> <!-- The antlib loaded using the classloader for "foo.bar" --> </project> Before jumping on a code proposal, does this sound a the right or good solution? Does this cover enough of the use cases? Let me know what you people think. Jose Aberto
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