Re: [gentoo-java] Re: java-dep-check on ant tasks

["\"Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)\"" <fordfrog@gentoo.org>]

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Dne 31.1.2011 02:14, Vlastimil Babka napsal(a):
> On 01/19/2011 04:03 PM, "Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)" wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i was looking at the issues when some classes cannot be found via
>> DEPENDS, like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298689. the problem
>> is that DEPENDS for ant tasks does not contain dependency on ant-core.
>> this patch below could fix it (at least it fixed the issue for me and
>> testing some junit ant tasks while emerging packages with
>> FEATURES="test" worked too):
> 
> This could work for ant-tasks themselves, but not for everything else
> that has ant-core dependency, such as when a package provides some ant
> task. In that case, the depending classes are needed only when invoked
> from within ant, in which case they are already on classpath.
> Registering as dependency would make ant put on classpath in all cases
> the package is used.
> The bottom line is, there should be a way to exclude stuff (such as ant
> classes) in java-dep-check.

well, imo there is a question when to exclude and when not, talking
generally, not just about ant classes.

> 
> BTW, the mailing list is better than the java alias for this. Seems to
> get much less spam as I see it :)
> 
> Vlastimil

miroslav
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