Andreas Delmelle wrote: > On 21 Jan 2009, at 11:45, Peter B. West wrote: >> >> It might be a good idea to set svn:ignore properties on ant.jar and the >> offo jars in lib. Then you could tell interested parties to drop those >> jars into lib as part of the preparation for building, and it's unlikely >> that the jars will come back t haunt you. > > Yep, dropping the ant.jar in $FOP_HOME$/lib would probably be the > fastest solution. It's what I wanted to suggest first, but then again, > I'm personally not too fond of copying JARs around. If you have Ant > somewhere on your machine, then IMO, it's cleaner to have the > build-classpath point to that ant.jar than copying it to the lib folder. > Just remembered: we have svn:ignore set on the file > $FOP_HOME/build-local.properties, which one could create and use to > specify locations of dependencies that are dependent on the local setup.
If you're running *n*x, you can link ant.jar into lib. I believe you can even do that with ntfs nowadays. It's simpler to have all your build requirements in one place. -- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/> Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/folio.html>
