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.
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. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

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

RE: Ant should have an ext directory

2005-01-05 Thread Erskine, Chris
t; > 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 > >

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

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