Jeff,

>If we require junit.jar in Ant's lib/ directory, why do we need users to
>declare it in ant.properties files? Won't junit.jar be picked up from
>the system classpath?
>
That is easy to test with

   <available classname="junit.framework.TestCase" property="junit.present"/>

Rather than testing for the presence of the jar in a relative place.

>
>
>I'm halfway through a really cool dependency checking system. Type 'ant'
>anywhere, and it will recursively build required components (if they
>need building), or print a message stating what needs to be declared (or
>do a HTTP GET to retrieve the jar). Works from CVS components and for
>isolated components. Will finish it tomorrow..
>
This sounds like it is exactly what I think we should have.  Respect.

- Paul H


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