Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:10:42 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ant script annoyances Message-ID: <200309111110.42838.ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030910204830.GA60171@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030909215210.GA5404@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20030910143418.H34811@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20030910204830.GA60171@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan, Herve,
Okay, if this behaviour is really causing Ant to behave incompatible on
FreeBSD, which it is, then we should rollback. We all agree on this.
On the other hand, it must be _very_ easy to keep the current behaviour, if
a person would like this. (S)he should only have to make a one-time change
to get this behaviour for a single account or for all accounts on the
machine. Do you agree?
The easiest way to implement this, is to have a single environment variable
that enables this behaviour if set. A person can then set this in
/etc/profile or in ~/.profile. I know this is notas nifty as an ant-config
command, but it's simple and effective. What do you think of this
alternative?
Ernst
On woensdag 10 september 2003 22:48, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:15:51PM +0200, Herve Quiroz wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > 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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