RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-20 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The -lib switch sucks for everyday use. You don't want to modify the > distributed code because the next time you upgrade you have to do it all > over again. > > An ext directory is self-documenting and easy to upgr

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Dick, Brian E.
ry 05, 2005 10:56 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory --- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows has dll hell. Java has jar war. > > If you press ctrl-c while running ant, the > antrc_post.bat file does not run. In this cas

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Matt Benson
--- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows has dll hell. Java has jar war. > > If you press ctrl-c while running ant, the > antrc_post.bat file does not run. In this case, any > environment changes made by antrc_pre.bat will not > be undone. Yuk. I have long wondered about these b

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Erskine, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 January 2005 15:20 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory > > I do not think that we are saying to use Maven. I am asking for a way to > support dif

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Dick, Brian E.
: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:32 AM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: AW: Ant should have an ext directory > That starts to solve the issue of the external ext directory > although it > does make it a little more work for the users to set up ant on their > machine. (Did you remember t

AW: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Jan . Materne
> And then have all versions of junit in use in your ant../lib dir: > > c:/[blah]/apache-ant-1.6.2/lib/junit-v1.jar > c:/[blah]/apache-ant-1.6.2/lib/junit-v2.jar Not good to place multiple versions in ANT_HOME/lib, because all JARs there are loaded by Ant. Jan

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread galenboyerdev
"Erskine, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That starts to solve the issue of the external ext directory although it > does make it a little more work for the users to set up ant on their > machine. (Did you remember to go to your environment control and add the > ANT_ARGS value?). > > This d

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hatcher
9-265-5962 -Original Message- From: James Abley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:02 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 04:50, Erskine, Chris wrote: I do not think that we are saying to use Maven. I am asking for

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Erskine, Chris
the Gods Rd Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Phone: 719-265-5962 > -Original Message- > From: James Abley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:02 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory > > On Wed, 2005-01

AW: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Jan . Materne
> That starts to solve the issue of the external ext directory > although it > does make it a little more work for the users to set up ant on their > machine. (Did you remember to go to your environment control > and add the > ANT_ARGS value?). Can be done by %HOME%\antrc_pre.bat and %HOME%\ant

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Erskine, Chris
Ant should have an ext directory > > Have you tried setting the ANT_ARGS to "-lib /yourcompany/ant/ext" ? > > Jan > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > Von: Erskine, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 05:50

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 5, 2005, at 4:02 AM, James Abley wrote: Have you read or got access to a copy of "Java Development with Ant"? That has a good section about handling versioned dependencies which might work for you. It involves having a strict directory structure, and using a few levels of indirection with pr

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread James Abley
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 04:50, Erskine, Chris wrote: > I do not think that we are saying to use Maven. I am asking for a way to > support different versions of third party jars from the same instance of > ant. Maven is being used as an example of one way to do it. I do not need > the auto-download

AW: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Jan . Materne
Have you tried setting the ANT_ARGS to "-lib /yourcompany/ant/ext" ? Jan > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Erskine, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 05:50 > An: Ant Users List > Betreff: RE: Ant should have an ext directory

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Erskine, Chris
-EDS-001 2424 Garden of the Gods Rd Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Phone: 719-265-5962 > -Original Message- > From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:16 AM > To: 'Ant Users List' > Subject: RE: Ant sho

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread galenboyerdev
> - Original Message - > From: "Stephen McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Ant Users List'" > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:45 PM > Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory > > > > > > >

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Poonam
x27;Ant Users List'" Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 04 January 2005 23:26 > > To: Ant Users List &g

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 January 2005 23:26 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory > > "Robert r. Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yeah, b

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Dick, Brian E.
2005 7:52 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory The big issue that I see with all of these solutions the fact that you are forcing all projects to use the same version of the external jars. This means that when a major new version of some support jar comes out, I ha

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Dick, Brian E.
ROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:02 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory Hi An alternative we have used is to put ANT itself into a ClearCase VOB. We have one common vob named "devtools" that, among other things, contains ANT and all of the

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread galenboyerdev
"Robert r. Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, but I don't think this is what the question was about. I understood that. > It would be nice to have a place to put the (global) ant extensions > you are using to keep them separate from the main/default ant > libraries to help wi

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Erskine, Chris
Services F5-EDS-001 2424 Garden of the Gods Rd Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Phone: 719-265-5962 > -Original Message- > From: North Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:02 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Dick, Brian E.
TED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:46 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory Why don't just use the -lib switch[1] and leave all as is? You can modify the ant script (either ant.bat or ant.sh) to make part of the ant command the lib switch. Then, you can distribut

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-04 Thread Dick, Brian E.
Bingo. -Original Message- From: Robert r. Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:31 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory Yeah, but I don't think this is what the question was about. It would be nice to have a place to pu

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread North Alex
easy. <= Alex => >-Original Message- >From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 7:42 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory > > >Understood, but I want to create a department-wide ant >dist

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
anual/running.html#libs -Original Message- From: Robert r. Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 5:31 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory Yeah, but I don't think this is what the question was about. It would be nice to have

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Robert r. Sanders
Yeah, but I don't think this is what the question was about. It would be nice to have a place to put the (global) ant extensions you are using to keep them separate from the main/default ant libraries to help with file management, etc... The best I can think of: Create an ext directory in a

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread galenboyerdev
o have different distributions. (I believe it uses an override mechanism) HTH. -- Galen Boyer > -original Message- > From: Ivan Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:33 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext di

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Dick, Brian E.
Oh, I can come up with all kinds of way to get the job done, but none them beat having an ext directory. -Original Message- From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:19 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory On Mon, 3

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Martin Cooper
nt: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:33 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory Dick, --- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else get an icky feeling when copying extension libraries into the lib directory? Isn't that why the java runtime a

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Dick, Brian E.
, 2005 12:33 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory Dick, --- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else get an icky feeling when copying > extension libraries > into the lib directory? Isn't that why the java > runtim

Re: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Dick, --- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else get an icky feeling when copying > extension libraries > into the lib directory? Isn't that why the java > runtime added the ext > directory? Ant 1.6 or higher hunts for its jars on three places: ${ant.home}/lib, ${user.home

Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-03 Thread Dick, Brian E.
Does anyone else get an icky feeling when copying extension libraries into the lib directory? Isn't that why the java runtime added the ext directory? Later, BEDick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma