Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 64393 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2005 18:19:55 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Jan 2005 18:19:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 1812 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jan 2005 18:19:24 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-user-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 1758 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jan 2005 18:19:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Users List" Reply-To: "Ant Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list user@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 1737 invoked by uid 99); 3 Jan 2005 18:19:23 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-10.0 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (209.237.227.194) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with SMTP; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:19:16 -0800 Received: (qmail 63694 invoked by uid 1339); 3 Jan 2005 18:19:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 2005 18:19:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:19:12 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Cooper To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant should have an ext directory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050103101716.U61914@minotaur.apache.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Dick, Brian E. wrote: > Understood, but I want to create a department-wide ant distribution that > is augmented with common extension libraries. None of the options you > list make this particularly clean and easy to manage. You could use Ant to set it up. ;-) In other words, after people install Ant, they run 'ant -f setup.xml' where the default target in that build file downloads your extension libraries from some known place and puts them into ${user.home}/.ant/lib. -- Martin Cooper > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Ivanov [mailto:rambiusparkisanius@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:33 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Ant should have an ext directory > > > Dick, > --- "Dick, Brian E." wrote: > >> Does anyone else get an icky feeling when copying >> extension libraries >> into the lib directory? Isn't that why the java >> runtime added the ext >> directory? > > Ant 1.6 or higher hunts for its jars on three places: > ${ant.home}/lib, ${user.home}/.ant/lib and the > directory specified by -lib option of ant laumching > script. So from Ant 1.6 I do copy no jars in > ${ant.home}/lib; instead I place them in > ${user.home}/.ant/lib. This ease me when I change > ant/jdk version I work with. > > HTH Ivan >> >> Later, >> BEDick >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> user-help@ant.apache.org >> >> > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@ant.apache.org