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Subject: Re: ant script annoyances
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I agree with this. IMHO 'classpath-config' would be a good name for such
a tool. With the following options (or similar with different names):

  --all -> CLASSPATH contains all JARs and subdirs from $JAVASHAREDIR.

  --add -> Add selected paths and JARs in the current CLASSPATH variable
  instead of overriding it.

  --with-lib=<library_name> -> include the specified JAR  in the
  CLASSPATH. For example, '--with-lib=junit' would add the first JAR
  file whose name starts with 'junit' in the JAVASHAREDIR directory.

The first two options are mandatory. The third could just be implemented
later. I only listed it here to demonstrate the usefulness of such a
tool for efficient java application coding/running.

Herve

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Ernst de Haan wrote:

> > The  algorithm/script fragment  that adds  FreeBSD-specific jars  to the
> > classpath is  interesting *also* outside  of Ant.  Why not  extract that
> > part and make it a shell script that could even be sourced within Ant if
> > the specific env variable is set?
>
> You are right. We should indeed provide a separate script for this. Question
> is how we distribute this script. But then it shouldn't be treated as part
> of Ant either.
>
> What if we make this a separate port, make Ant dependent on it, and *also*
> change the ant shell script to recognize an environment variable that will
> make it call that script?
>
> Ernst