> -----Original Message----- > From: Clifton Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2006 1:02 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: When is the next release? > > So what you all are saying is that without all of the 3rd > party jars the best I can get out of the ant source distro is > an incomplete build? I checked and that is right, the > optional task jars are all empty. I also looked around for a > fetch.xml and could not find one. That is somewhat > discouraging as I was hoping for something that would just > work without having to do extra steps.
Simply put - Ant does not have a framework for effective management of 3rd. Party plugins - a.k.a. Ant imposes extra steps. The missing ingredient is a standalone 'ant-plugin' that includes the declaration of version dependencies when loading a extension (i.e. it's not sufficient to depend on developers with free time available - what you need is a complete dynamic antlib deployment solution). There are external antlibs (fully ASL 2.0 compatible) that address and fully resolve this issue, however - a solution needs to come from the Ant community as a part of a 1.7 release (IMVHO). Cheers, Steve. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
