Adding the Ant-Contrib Tasks

[George Storm <gs...@divxcorp.com>]

I wish to use the "var" referenced from this link:
<http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/variable_task.html>

I have downloaded and extracted the 1.0b3 files.

I am referencing the installation documentation:
<http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/ >

I am attempting to install based on the first option

I have placed the ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar into my ~/local/ant/lib folder.

Do I need to copy the other files that were extracted and where to?

It says to include the following line in my script:

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>

When I do I get the error:
Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.

As there are no .xml files in what I extracted I am at a loss as to where
they want my path to actually point to.

Your assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

- George Lawrence Storm, DivX, Inc.


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Re: Adding the Ant-Contrib Tasks

[Peter Reilly <pe...@gmail.com>]

What you are doing seems to be correct
(assuming that ~/local/ant is $ANT_HOME)

I would check a number of things.
1: does the file /etc/ant.conf exist?
2: which version of ant are you using ? (ant 1.7.0 would
   be the best).

I used to place all third party tasks in $ANT_HOME/lib, but
now I place them in the project and use a different XML name
space for them.

For ant-contrib I use:
<project name="ant-contrib.setup">
  <!-- setup antcontrib -->
  <typedef uri="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib"
           resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
    <classpath>
      <fileset dir="${commons.dir}/lib/ant/ant-contrib" includes="*.jar"/>
    </classpath>
  </typedef>
</project>

And refer to var as follows:
<project name="targets"  xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib">
.
.
.
      <ac:var name="-build-macro-1-" unset="yes"/>
.
.
</project>
On 5/2/07, George Storm <gs...@divxcorp.com> wrote:
> I wish to use the "var" referenced from this link:
> <http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/variable_task.html>
>
> I have downloaded and extracted the 1.0b3 files.
>
> I am referencing the installation documentation:
> <http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/ >
>
> I am attempting to install based on the first option
>
> I have placed the ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar into my ~/local/ant/lib folder.
>
> Do I need to copy the other files that were extracted and where to?
>
> It says to include the following line in my script:
>
> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
>
> When I do I get the error:
> Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.
>
> As there are no .xml files in what I extracted I am at a loss as to where
> they want my path to actually point to.
>
> Your assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - George Lawrence Storm, DivX, Inc.
>
>
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