Bug#547969: ivy jar not added to ant lib

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:29:55AM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Ant upstream authors recommend using classpath attribute for optional
> ant tasks when defining the task in build.xml.[1] Hence the symlink
> should not be present in ant's library. Also the symlink modifies the
> default classpath of ant which will cause problem if user wants to use
> another version of ivy outside the system installation.

I agree with Onkar. There are several ways to make additional classes
for tasks know to ant. Polluting Ant's lib-directory is one of the
worst ones.

I tend to tag this bug as wontfix but I will wait some more days for
more opinions.


Cheers,
Michael