Thanks Stefan and Jesse, I now understand that this change had to be made. Setting this per Ant installation is consequently the same as setting an env var, so I will bow down and change all my build files accordingly.
Karsten -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jesse Glick <jesse.gl...@oracle.com> Gesendet: 18.08.2010 18:15:32 An: dev@ant.apache.org Betreff: Re: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set >On 08/18/2010 10:14 AM, kwut...@web.de wrote: >> Why doesn't Ant just default to false and just omit warning me about this >> for every Ant build? > >That would be an incompatible change. Some old build scripts may be >intentionally compiling sources against ant.jar (typically because they define >Ant tasks), tools.jar >(who knows why), etc. They also ought to set includeantruntime=false but then >explicitly add the desired <classpath>, e.g. . (The >warning will also go away if you set includeantruntime=true, but this will >make your script be less portable.) > >I agree that it is irritating to issue this warning so often, but the >alternative of breaking compatibility even for a minority of existing scripts >seems worse. There are >similar places in Ant where an old default was a bad choice but cannot now be >changed compatibly. > >(You could also define ANT_OPTS=-Dbuild.sysclasspath=ignore for yourself but >this will not help other people running your script.) > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > ___________________________________________________________ WEB.DE DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 ¿/mtl.!* http://web.de/DSL-Doppel-Flatrate/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
