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	Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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Subject: Re: ant script annoyances
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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.