Not quite, one can use the "classloader" task as implemented in bugzilla 28228. http://enitsys.sourceforge.net/ant-classloadertask/ Please note that this uses protected methods on the java classes and thus may not be future compible.
However, I do think that optional ant tasks should not require the thirdparty jars to be placed in .ant/lib or $ANT_HOME/lib, or require modification of ant's distribution, or require use of protected methods... There is a patch to allow the junit task to be loaded without refering to the junit classes (cannot find the bugzilla number at the moment). **I am not too sure if this is backward compatible. I think that all *NEW* optional tasks to ant should follow that convention. Peter On 11/14/05, Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i didn't quite catch the resolution to this. is there a > > solution to using a stock ant distribution , without > > modifying your target environment (ANT_HOME/lib, ~/.ant/lib, > > etc), and using the optional tasks such as junit, scp, ftp, > > etc? if so, can someone give an example of how to do this? > > No, there is no way of doing it without either modifying the environment > or using "copies" of the tasks with different class names. > > Jon > > >
