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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:14:48 +0200
From: Omry Yadan <omry@yadan.net>
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Hi Antoine,

The task I am trying to use is a 'built-in' optional task, specifically
- antlr.

to my knowledge, I can't define it using a taskdef directive.



Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:

> Hello Omry,
>
> it is good practice to work the way you envision to do.
>
> The manual page for junit
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/junit.html gives some
> informations concerning this question.
>
> Supposing junit is one of the optional tasks for which you want to use
> a version stored in the directory tree of the build file, you can
> choose the option <5> from the manual page (assuming you are using ant
> 1.7.0)
>
> So you would add in your build file this line
>
> <taskdef name="junit"
> classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask" 
> classpath="lib/junit/junit-x.y.z.jar"/>
>
> assuming you have ant-junit.jar under $ANT_HOME/lib (which is the
> default if you use one of our releases) and you have a subdirectory
> lib/junit with junit-x-y-z.jar in it in, relative to the basedir of
> the build file.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Antoine
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Omry Yadan wrote:
>
>> is it possible to add the reference to the required jars for an
>> optional task as a part of the build.xml?
>> similar to the way  I can add my own tasks and keep them with the
>> build.xml
>> this will make build files much more portable across different
>> machines, because it will be possible to bundle the build.xml with
>> the jars required by the optional tasks it uses.
>>
>>
>
>
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