I think your plan is a great one. I'm having a related but different
thought about debian support.
What do people think about Ant supporting a way to install and remove
antlibs from the command line into a standard antlib directory that is
automatically added to the classpath on startup? That would support the
creation of separate debian packages for individual antlibs. Installed
antlibs could be made automatically available to any build file.
An alternative of doing this for debian is to define a specific location
for separately-packaged antlibs to reside (such as
/usr/share/ant/antlib) and to have that location added as a '-lib'
parameter to the script installed to invoke ant, but I find that
solution much more brittle. It doesn't survive a user-installed upgrade
of ant into /usr/local, for example.
Kevin Jackson wrote:
Hi all,
I have been working on some tasks related to debian packaging.
So far I have :
- dpkg (creates a debian package from a directory)
- control (creates a dpkg control file)
and I'm working on :
- install, takes a .deb package and installs it
- more robust error checking etc for the current tasks
I want to flesh this out as a real antlib for those of us who are
debian users, and also so that we can offer an official .deb build of
Ant (hopefully for 1.7.1 time).
Right now the requirements are that you have a debian based
distribution installed, although a .deb seems to be similar to a jar
(it's just an archive with metadata), so I'd like to transition to a
pure Java version if possible at a later date.
Would this be suitable for the svn sandbox? Are there any objections
to my committing my progress so far? I only ask as I am in the middle
of updating to feisty fawn, and I'd like to version control my code in
case the worst should happen.
Thanks,
Kev
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