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I think that for this to be really usefull, one would need to
use the <classloader/> task.
See http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28228

It does have some issues (sub-projects affecting
the main project, and when ant is used in an ide)
but it's benifits outweigh the drawbacks..

For example:

<project>
   <?? libraries ?? -> junit.jar/>
    <classloader loader="project" 
classpath="${user.home}/.libraries/junit/junit.jar"/>

    <junit  .../>
</project>

Peter

Steve Loughran wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:22:40 -0600, Groboclown <groboclown@gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>>On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +0000, Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org>
>>    
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>wrote:
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>>>Also, and this is important, you dont need to use it to download
>>>      
>>>
>stuff.
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>>>Instead you can use it to manage libraries that you depend on. (We
>>>      
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>may
>  
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>>>want to change behaviour to say if you dont specify a repository,
>>>      
>>>
>that
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>>>is exactly what you get)
>>>      
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>>That's great.  I just became a little cautious when I saw a bunch of
>>hard-coded references to the Maven style of paths.  If this stays
>>confined to the Maven repository, that's fine.
>>
>>One thing I've always liked about Ant is that it doesn't dictate to
>>you any way to store your files (well, besides the ANT_HOME
>>directory).  This kind of thing seems to me like forcing the user into
>>the Maven world view.
>>
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>
>No, no maven world view. And the task is very extensible; you can define
>new repository types to bind to non-maven, even non-http repositories;
>you can define new handlers (UpdatePolicies) to run before and after the
>downloads. 
>
>One thing on my todo list (*) is to add something to ant's build.xml to
>fetch down the relevant binaries for all the optional tasks to build. We
>could then do one for end users that pulls in the appropriate binaries
>into an installation. Thoughts?
>
>
>-steve
>
>(*) none of which will get done this calendar year; I am off on holiday
>with no laptop till january.
>
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