Re: New repository task

[Peter Reilly]

I think that for this to be really usefull, one would need to
use the <classloader/> task.
See http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28228
It does have some issues (sub-projects affecting
the main project, and when ant is used in an ide)
but it's benifits outweigh the drawbacks..
For example:
<project>
  <?? libraries ?? -> junit.jar/>
   <classloader loader="project" 
classpath="${user.home}/.libraries/junit/junit.jar"/>

   <junit  .../>
</project>
Peter
Steve Loughran wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:22:40 -0600, Groboclown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
 

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +0000, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   

wrote:
 

Also, and this is important, you dont need to use it to download
     

stuff.
 

Instead you can use it to manage libraries that you depend on. (We
     

may
 

want to change behaviour to say if you dont specify a repository,
     

that
 

is exactly what you get)
     

That's great.  I just became a little cautious when I saw a bunch of
hard-coded references to the Maven style of paths.  If this stays
confined to the Maven repository, that's fine.
One thing I've always liked about Ant is that it doesn't dictate to
you any way to store your files (well, besides the ANT_HOME
directory).  This kind of thing seems to me like forcing the user into
the Maven world view.
   

No, no maven world view. And the task is very extensible; you can define
new repository types to bind to non-maven, even non-http repositories;
you can define new handlers (UpdatePolicies) to run before and after the
downloads. 

One thing on my todo list (*) is to add something to ant's build.xml to
fetch down the relevant binaries for all the optional tasks to build. We
could then do one for end users that pulls in the appropriate binaries
into an installation. Thoughts?
-steve
(*) none of which will get done this calendar year; I am off on holiday
with no laptop till january.
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