Stephen McConnell wrote:
>
>>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.
That would be best for building Excalibur, but I wasn't sure if we should be
modifying files in their ant directory without asking them. Or is there a
way to keep them in the Excalibur directory and have Ant load them?
Leif
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