+1 to remove ivy-core.jar Peter
On Dec 19, 2007 3:16 PM, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ATM Ivy is provided in the form of two jars: ivy.jar and ivy-core.jar. The > ivy-core.jar is basically the same as ivy.jar except that it doesn't contain > Ant related classes (mostly Ivy Ant tasks). This was introduced a long time > ago for IvyDE, as a workaround to a classloader issue when contributing > ivy.jar to ant classpath in eclipse. > > The downside of this is that most people do not understand the difference > between the two, and I often see people putting both ivy.jar and > ivy-core.jar in ant/lib. Not that much a problem, until someone change only > one jar out of the two, which can lead to strange bugs difficult to diagnose > if ivy-core.jar is before ivy.jar in the classpath. > > Moreover, in recent tests I've found that the eclipse ant classpath problem > was still present in some cases, and preferred to use an easy and > straightforward solution: configure ant classpath manually in eclipse to add > ivy.jar (or point to another ant home where ivy.jar is already present). > > Thus I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to abandon ivy-core.jar, and > tell IvyDE users they have to configure their ant classpath manually IF they > want to use Ivy tasks in their ant build from eclipse (as they have to do > for any other custom ant tasks anyway). > > WDYT? > > Xavier > -- > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant > http://xhab.blogspot.com/ > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ > http://www.xoocode.org/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
