Re: Antlibs and Classloaders

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On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 at 11:36, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote:

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> There is a built-in way in Ant, the <classloader> task - something that
> is dirty little secret so much that we don't even document it. This
> could either be used to inject Ivy into Ant's core loader - or I could
> define the classloader for the Antlib and set it up to use the
> classloader that is used by Ivy as its parent. This should work. If this
> is an approach we want to recommend, we probably should make the task
> "official".


 There is that 20+ year old proposal for an "advanced" classloader task
that can be used as an antlib :-)


> Another idea would be to allow <typedef> to optionally specify the
> parent classloader. This would allow the setup of the paragraph above
> without the use of the classloader task - but requires a change to Ant.


 That would suffice.

Gintas

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