Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Brett Porter
Sorry, that wasn't what I intended, but I do see your point. - Brett Steve Loughran wrote: Brett Porter wrote: I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. ahh. but then we'd have to build in our entire versioned library mechanism, and right now we are reluctant to do so

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Hobson
On 24/10/05, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or copy Ant's fetch.xml, which will ship with ant1.7, which is property > file driven. nobody should hard code versions into build files. Thanks for the pointer Steve, I hadn't seen that. Mark --

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Brett Porter wrote: I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. ahh. but then we'd have to build in our entire versioned library mechanism, and right now we are reluctant to do so (or even finish off the unfinished tasks.libraries package) because its a hard enough problem

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Loughran
Mark Hobson wrote: On 24/10/05, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 24/10/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. Could you do something relatively easily with ? I like it - hadn't seen that one before, I'll give it

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Hobson
On 24/10/05, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/10/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. > > > > Could you do something relatively easily with ? > > I like it - hadn't seen that one before, I'll give it a go thank

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Hobson
On 24/10/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. > > Could you do something relatively easily with ? I like it - hadn't seen that one before, I'll give it a go thanks. Mark -

Re: Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Brett Porter
I really think Ant should include this in general for Antlibs. Could you do something relatively easily with ? - Brett Mark Hobson wrote: Hi there, Has anyone considered implementing a bootstrap ant task for maven-artifact-ant? This bootstrap task would download a given version of maven-art

Ant bootstrap task

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Hobson
Hi there, Has anyone considered implementing a bootstrap ant task for maven-artifact-ant? This bootstrap task would download a given version of maven-artifact-ant to the local repo, thus saving the project from storing maven-artifact-ant-2.0-dep.jar in it's SCM (all 868k of it). For example: