On 2/23/06, Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > I would suggest a completely new task (or tasks) and that the jar file > is *not* supplied with stock Ant. > That way we could get round the nasty problem we've currently got of > requiring JUnit's jar file to be in the lib directory to get a stock Ant > install to work. > ..
Yes, this is the way to do any future optional tasks that depend on external jars. The optional tasks should *not* be loaded into the ant's classpath at startup time.