On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Greg Roodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have downloaded the source and am starting to get familiar with > it, but before I go too far I want to know if this is > possible/desirable for Ant.
Possible, probably, but non trivial. The FTP class depends strongly on commons-net, so in order to make it work you'd: * have to split the FTP task into two classes (and probably throw in an interface for good measure) * make sure the class that is loaded via Ant's classloader (the task) doesn't have any direct reference to either commons-net or the new class holding the FTP task's implemetation and go from there. Something similar has been done for the JUnit task in Ant 1.7.0. <http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=381467> has been the initial commit, which has been refined later. > I have searched the archives and there are a few people who want the > ability to run the FTP task without dropping the libs in > ant_home/lib. It is probably easier to re-<taskdef> the tasks using a <taskdef> that has both ant-commons-net.jar and commons-net.jar in its classpath and remove ant-commons-net.jar from ANT_HOME/lib. <http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#delegating-classloader-1.6> But if you want to modify the FTP task to make things work easier, you are very welcome. If you wanted to tackle the other commons-net related tasks at the same time, that would be even better. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
