Re: All those jars...!

[Dale Anson]

I don't claim to understand the details of what ant-launcher is supposed 
to do, but if I do:

cd ${ant.home}/lib
jar xf ant.jar
jar xf ant-launcher.jar
rm ant.jar ant-launcher.jar
jar cfm ant.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/LICENSE.txt images/ org/
rm -rf META-INF/ images/ org/
java -jar ant.jar -version
I get:
Apache Ant version 1.6alpha compiled on September 9 2003
Which means that Ant is using the ant-launcher classes in the same jar.
If I change line 57 of ${ant.home}/bin/ant.bat from:
set LOCALCLASSPATH=%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant-launcher.jar;%CLASSPATH%
to:
set LOCALCLASSPATH=%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant.jar;%CLASSPATH%
and these lines in ${ant.home}/bin/ant (the shell script)
if [ -z "$LOCALCLASSPATH" ] ; then
   LOCALCLASSPATH=$ANT_LIB/ant-launcher.jar
else
   LOCALCLASSPATH=$ANT_LIB/ant-launcher.jar:$LOCALCLASSPATH
fi
to
if [ -z "$LOCALCLASSPATH" ] ; then
   LOCALCLASSPATH=$ANT_LIB/ant.jar
else
   LOCALCLASSPATH=$ANT_LIB/ant.jar:$LOCALCLASSPATH
fi
then doing:
ant -version
gives me:
Apache Ant version 1.6alpha compiled on September 9 2003
rather than an error.
I spent some time yesterday trying to find the minimum set of jars files 
required to run Ant, and by doing the above, I only need one jar. I'm 
sure there must be a good reason to have the ant-launcher classes in a 
separate jar, but obviously I don't know what it is or I wouldn't be 
rambling on about it!

Dale
Steve Loughran wrote:
Dale Anson wrote:
It looks like either optional.jar or ant-launcher.jar are required in 
addition to ant.jar, see below. It might be nice to put the classes 
from ant-launcher.jar into ant.jar.

not possible, because the role of ant-launcher is to set up the 
classpath to load ant.jar and the other jars.

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