I forgot that I had this in mind, too! +1 for breaking backward compatibility and require those who need the sysclasspath explicitly.
Karsten -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> Gesendet: 18.08.2010 18:31:51 An: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> Betreff: Re: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set > >On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Jesse Glick wrote: > >> 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.) >> > >Personally, I would vote that we break backward-compatibility on this issue, >and require those running such ancient buildfiles to declare >build.sysclasspath if they DO want the system classpath appended. > >-Matt > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > ___________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
