> What about adding an init task to the builds which checks for the
> pressence of
> all required jars. If any are missing then the build will fail
> with a message
> telling them to run 'ant update-ant-jars'. This task would automatically
> download and install all of the required jars from our server and
> install them
> into the correct ant directories. The user then reruns and and
> everything will
> work. Is there a way to have ant check the dates of the required
> files? It
> would be nice if the build could tell users to rerun the update
> whenever any
> of the required jar versions are changed as well.
If you use ant to copy a file and supply a url, doesn't do the normally
checking if the local version is the same and if not - it does a remote
download. I would prefer this to a build failure.
> Thoughts? This was actually Ryan's idea? (You had asked him if he was a
> committer the other day. I would be +1 :-)
Me too.
Cheers, Steve.
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