'ant.library.dir' instead of 'ant.library.dirs'? (was Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/launch Launcher .java)

2004-02-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why go for 'ant.library.dir' instead of 'ant.library.dirs'? OK, I've had a second look. It seems as if we could do that with some simple changes in Launcher, namely adding ~/.ant/lib and ${ant.library.dirs} to the libPaths list

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/launch Launcher .java

2004-02-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is only peripherally related... this has been > discussed briefly before, but I never received a > satisfactory answer. Can someone justify the > restriction that all Java classes and resources to be > used by Ant must be in jars?

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/launch Launcher .java

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Benson
--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Dominique Devienne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why go for 'ant.library.dir' instead of > 'ant.library.dirs'? > This is only peripherally related... this has been discussed briefly before, but I never received a satisfacto

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/launch Launcher .java

2004-02-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why go for 'ant.library.dir' instead of 'ant.library.dirs'? Dunno, this was Randy's initial submission and I didn't think we'd want to support more than one ANT_HOME/lib like directory. But then again, why not. Stefan ---

RE: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/launch Launcher .java

2004-02-11 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Merge handling of ant.library.dir system property from HEAD > +URL[] systemJars = Locator.getLocationURLs(antLibDir); Why go for 'ant.library.dir' instead of 'ant.library.dirs'? Given that your get URL[], it obviously accepts severa