Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-30 Thread Dale Anson
Conor, Thanks for the explanation, it makes perfect sense. I was pretty sure there was a good reason to have the jars separated, but didn't pick up on the classloader issue. Dale Conor MacNeill wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:04 am, Dale Anson wrote: I don't claim to understand the details of w

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-30 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:10 am, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: > Would not it be easier to provide something like antall.jar that > includes all ANT jars in its manifest's classpath? It would solve my > problems with ANT classloader. > No. It would only work if that manifest classpath included all the

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-30 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:04 am, Dale Anson wrote: > I don't claim to understand the details of what ant-launcher is supposed > to do, ant-launcher is supposed to setup an appropriate classloader hierarchy to launch ant. In particular it is the minimal set of classes is required to be on the class

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-30 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
Would not it be easier to provide something like antall.jar that includes all ANT jars in its manifest's classpath? It would solve my problems with ANT classloader. - Alexey. Steve Loughran wrote: Dale Anson wrote: It looks like either optional.jar or ant-launcher.jar are required in addition t

AW: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Antoine Lévy-Lambert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2003 21:04 An: Ant Developers List Betreff: Re: All those jars...! I don't claim to understand the details of what ant-launcher is supposed to do, but if I do: cd ${ant.home}/lib jar xf ant.jar jar xf ant-launcher.jar rm ant.ja

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Dale Anson
I don't claim to understand the details of what ant-launcher is supposed to do, but if I do: cd ${ant.home}/lib jar xf ant.jar jar xf ant-launcher.jar rm ant.jar ant-launcher.jar jar cfm ant.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/LICENSE.txt images/ org/ rm -rf META-INF/ images/ org/ java -jar ant.jar

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Loughran
Dale Anson wrote: It looks like either optional.jar or ant-launcher.jar are required in addition to ant.jar, see below. It might be nice to put the classes from ant-launcher.jar into ant.jar. not possible, because the role of ant-launcher is to set up the classpath to load ant.jar and the other

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Dale Anson
It looks like either optional.jar or ant-launcher.jar are required in addition to ant.jar, see below. It might be nice to put the classes from ant-launcher.jar into ant.jar. cd ${ant.home}/lib java -classpath ant.jar org.apache.tools.ant.Main Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundE

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Dale Anson wrote: > Woops -- never mind. If I get ant.jar and optional.jar from the same > distribution in the path, the rest are optional, as they should be. > optional.jar is going away IIRC. Conor -

Re: All those jars...!

2003-09-29 Thread Dale Anson
Woops -- never mind. If I get ant.jar and optional.jar from the same distribution in the path, the rest are optional, as they should be. Dale Anson wrote: > I downloaded the binary Ant 1.6 alpha, from the 9/9/2003 nightly build. > The 'lib' directory has 30+ jars. I regularly use Ant from within

All those jars...!

2003-09-28 Thread Dale Anson
I downloaded the binary Ant 1.6 alpha, from the 9/9/2003 nightly build. The 'lib' directory has 30+ jars. I regularly use Ant from within jEdit. Typically, I put a couple of soft link in my ${user.home}/.jedit/jars to ant.jar and optional.jar, or on Windows, I copy ant.jar and optional.jar into the