Re: [Bodington-developers] head/ant

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Matthew Buckett wrote:
> Alistair Young wrote:
> 
>> anyone going to bung org.apache.tools.ant into lib on head? doesn't  
>> compile, if there's any room left in there ;)

Sorry I misread your mail as org.apache.catalina.ant

> The apache Ant tasks (and their JAR, catalina-ant.jar) are only needed 
> if you are attempting to use any of the tomcat tasks. You should be able 
> to run the "all" task fine without having catalina-ant on your classpath.
> 
> The reason it isn't in CVS at the moment is that the catalina-ant.jar is 
> something that the developer should provide as depending on the version 
> of tomcat you are trying to deploy against depends on the version of 
> this JAR you want.
> 
> If you want to use the tomcat ant tasks just add them to your ant 
> classpath (~/.ant/lib or $ANT_HOME/lib/).
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/running.html#libs
> You should also be able to do the same with your IDE.
> 
> It is the same situation with junit. There isn't a junit JAR as 
> developers should already have one and just need to add it to their ant 
> classpath.
> 
> This is why I was questioning having the ant JAR in the project. All 
> developers should have a copy of this on their local machine.
> 


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