Hello Thorbjørn,
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
Hi.
We have a need for ant to be easily able to use a build.xml file
available on a remote server, which means that I would really like to
be able to provide an URL instead of a filename to ant.
the import task in 1.8.x supports importing resources which can be URLs.
So maybe the main build file cannot be http based, but the meat of the
build file can. So maybe you can have a stub of a build file on the file
system ?
I just found that 1.8rc0 has been released, so to check if ant already
can do this I downloaded the svn source for HEAD [1], and had a quick
look at the source for org.apache.tools.ant.Main, where it seems that
all the logic for the build file is File-based, and a quick look at
the developer mailing list and the issues system did not immediately
reveal any discussion on this.
I'd really, really like this to be possible in ant 1.8, hence this
hurried mail, and I'd be happy to help.
What should I do now?
/Thorbjørn
[1] The "ant bootstrap" process fails compiling optional taskdefs for
a plain svn extract. The installation documents does not mention how
to circumvent this.
to build the optional tasks, you need to download the dependencies using
ant -f fetch.xml ... (there are additional parameters). This can put the
libraries in lib/optional where the bootstrap process uses them. I think
currently only NetRexx is the only commercial dependency which cannot be
fetched that way, at least for my JDK 1.5 on Mac which include s JMF and
JAI in the extensions.
Regards,
Antoine
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