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Pat B
Pat B

Reputation: 1955

Using Ant with SVN

where are the latest versions of these files?

I keep on getting the following error : Reference svnant.classpath not found with the following configuration: 

<path id="path.svnant"> <pathelement location="${SVN.ANT.LIB}/svnant.jar"/> 
</path> 

<typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="path.svnant" />

So I added these entries after blogging :

<path id="path.svnant">
<pathelement location="${SVN.ANT.LIB}/svnant.jar"/>
<pathelement location="${SVN.ANT.LIB}/svnClientAdapter.jar"/>
<pathelement location="${SVN.ANT.LIB}/svnkit.jar"/>
<pathelement location="${SVN.ANT.LIB}/svnjavahl.jar"/>
</path>
<typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="path.svnant" />

But I can't seem to find these files or the latest versions of them.

Please Help

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2723

Answers (2)

David W.
David W.

Reputation: 107030

Just curious, why do you want to do Subversion commands in Ant?

Sometimes it's necessary. For example, if you use CruiseControl, you need to do the checkout for CruiseControl in your build.xml because CruiseControl doesn't do it.

However, most of the time, it's not a good idea. For example, you might use your build.xml to checkin the resulting built artifacts. This is not a good idea. You should be storing built artifacts in a release repositor where they can be available for other projects. Checking in large binary files into your Subversion repository will make your Subversion repository grow to tremendous size with little benefit. These built binaries take a lot of room and become obsolete in a matter of months.

We use Ant with Ivy. Our builds are done with Jenkins, and we use the mvm deploy:deploy-flle command in Jenkins to deploy our files into our Maven repository where Ant w/ Ivy can check them out for other projects. The stuff we deploy to other machines are kept in Jenkins.

Martin Clayton has answered you where you can find the files you need to get the Ant Subversion tasks working. However, my experience has been that it's simply easier just to use <exec> and execute Subversion commands directly. This way, you don't have to make sure that the Subversion API is installed and that it matches the Subversion client and server.

Upvotes: 0

martin clayton
martin clayton

Reputation: 78105

You can pick these up from CollabNet here. A number of builds are available, select the one appropriate for your version of Subversion. Each svnant-x.x.x.zip download linked to in that page contains the jar files you require. You may also need JavaHL.

Upvotes: 1

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