Charlie Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Use the optional ftp task and it's depends attribute. Note that it
depends on netcomponents.jar from
http://www.savarese.org/oro/downloads.
Jeff
> I would like to use Ant to automate the "gathering" of 3rd party
> libraries (jars, etc) from a remote ftp server, but I'm not sure what
> the "right" way of doing it would be.
>
> For example, starting from a clean build, I'd like my developers to be
> able to run an ant command which would ftp all the required libraries
> (junit, etc) from a central ftp server to their local rool-level build
> environment. My question is how to maintain this list of dependent
> libraries in a "clean" way.
>
> What I have now is a top-level properties.xml, which defines as
> properties the location of jar files required by all subprojects. For
> example:
>
>
> <property name="lib.dir"
> location="${masterbuild.dir}/lib" />
> <property name="xerces.dir"
> location="${lib.dir}/xerces-2_3_0" />
> <property name="xercesImpl.jar"
> location="${xerces.dir}/xercesImpl.jar" />
>
>
> I follow this pattern for all the libraries used. My problem is how
> should I use ant cleanly to go and fetch (either the tarball, or the
> full directory) from
>
> ftp://myRemoteServer/3rdPartyLibs/xerces-2_3_0
>
> to
>
> ${masterbuild.dir}/lib // local location
>
> Here's some pseudocode for what I'd like to be able to do:
>
>
> Array requiredLibs = { xerces, struts };
> for (i=0; i<requiredLibs.length; i++) {
> copy from remoteserver/requiredLibs[i] to
> local_masterbuild.dir/lib/
> }
>
>
> Is there a nice way to do this? Is anyone else doing something similar
> that might have a better suggestion for me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Charlie
>
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Thanks,
Jeff
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