As the manual says, the details of the short story are available in the
rest of the document. In particular, most of the list items in the short
story have a link that leads you to details about that step. If you want
to know what dest=system represents (many don't and describing it would
just be noise for them), then follow the link on that list item[1].
The fetch.xml has been around a while and has been mentioned in some
portions of the Ant documentation, but it has only very recently been
brought into the installing Ant section of the manual. Previously, the
manual suggested that users manually download each of the library
dependencies for tasks that they are interested in. Hopefully the change
will make it easier for users to use more of the tasks available.
The fetch.xml is in the ANT_HOME directory which should be the current
directory. That detail should probably be added to the manual.
[1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks
On 30/05/2010 5:18 AM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
To install Ant, follow the instructions at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing
Bruce had more information on this above.
I did notice that there is an extra step:
5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this, many
of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional
Tasks<#optionalTasks> for
details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.
What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a literal?
Is this step new with 1.8?
Where is the fetch.xml script?
Does current directory need to be set?
<http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing>
--glenn
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