ant script annoyances

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:15:51PM +0200, Herve Quiroz wrote:

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> IMHO the solution would be to revert to the former 'ant' behaviour and
> use a new variable to specify any addition to the standard classpath.
> Then build some shell tool to include all jars from ${JAVASHAREDIR} in
> the classpath (or any other).
> 
> The 'ant' executable (I mean the shell script) would look for some
> different variable (e.g. ANT_CLASSPATH) to be included in the CLASSPATH.
> The ANT_CLASSPATH would replace LOCALCLASSPATH, whose name is not
> implicit enough IMHO if it has to be used from outside of the ant shell
> script.
[.. rest-of-explanation snipped ..]

I like this solution the best because:

    1. ant will behave the same as it should on *all* platforms.
    2. if anyone wants a FreeBSD tweak, it can be done easily.

Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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