On Dec 19, 2007 7:49 PM, Gilles Scokart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused. > Is it really related to IvyDE or just to launching ant from eclipse? > Also, If you don't put the the ivy ant task into the ant classpath, but only > the core. How does ant launched from eclipse find those tasks? > I guess I miss something. > > Anyway, I think it is a good idea to simplify our main distribution. > However, once we will have a clear published interface, I think we could > further split the distribution in the maven repository. Please no, There is quite enough jars in ant at the moment, having a number of extra ivy jars to make things work is not in my opinion a good idea. Peter > > Gilles > > 2007/12/19, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > 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/ > > >
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