Alternatives: - I would place AntContrib somewhere and use <taskdef>. - Use Ivy's <ivy:cachepath> for getting the the jar and setting up the classpath for <taskdef> - integrate using "-lib" option
The last option could be done for all projects of a user if the user had a pre-file. Jan http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks http://ant.apache.org/manual/running.html#files >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Blaine Simpson [mailto:blaine.simp...@admc.com] >Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 00:53 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: Ant and rpm_mode > >I'm sure that others will have differing opionions. What I say here is >just mine. > >I've never seen a Linux distribution with Ant, Tomcat, etc. packaged in >a convenient and scalable way. I install manually (i.e. without the >package management software that I use for everything other than third >party Java products), knowing that I will have to spend about 15 >minutes/year updating manually. For any hosts where Ant has been >installed with an rpm, I alias "ant" to "ant --noconfig". Otherwise, >the heavy-handed scripts under /etc will override carefully set >environmental variables and such (often ignoring the Ant >distribution in >your search path, causing XML library conflicts, etc.). > > >David Weintraub wrote: >> My desktop machine is now a Fedora 10 machine, and I've been having a >> bit of an issue with installing ant-contrib.jar. >> >> Normally, you simply install the ant-contrib.jar inside the >> $ANT_HOME/lib, and everything is fine. However, that doesn't work on >> my machine unless I explicitly turn off rpm_mode. And, in order for >> that to work, I had to install the Ant version directly from >> ant.apache.org instead of relying on Fedora's packaging mechanism. >> >> How do I install the ant-contrib package on a Fedora >machine? How does >> Ant find the various jar files it needs when it is in rpm_mode? >> >> Right now, I had to: >> >> 1). Move /usr/share/ant to /usr/share/ant.orig >> 2). Install a new version of ant in /usr/share/ant >> 3). Move /usr/bin/ant to /usr/bin/ant.orig >> 4). Make a symbolic link from /usr/share/ant/bin/ant to >/usr/share/ant >> 5). Modify /etc/ant.conf to set rpm_mode to false. >> >> Doing this makes it impossible for my package manager to update Ant >> when a newer version comes out. What should I have done in order to >> get Ant to work with Ant-Contrib? >> >> -- >> David Weintraub >> qazw...@gmail.com > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
