Problems getting my ANT builds to work after OS upgrade

Question

I recently upgraded my system from Mint12 to Mint14 and had severe issues with getting my old projects to work nicely on the new system. To summarize it all:

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Answer 1

David mentioned using ivy to manage 3rd party dependencies.

This example demonstrates how both the ant-contrib and subversion dependencies can be downloaded and cached by the build.

On the issue of subversion I have always found it problematic to enable within ANT. What I desired was a pure java approach would be more robust and cross platform. My solution was svnkit and then create a macro to call the command-line client.

Example

Demonstrates using ivy to managed subversion and ant-contrib dependencies. Dependencies are declared in-line, using the cachepath task. Use a separate ivy.xml file if you're managing multiple classpaths

Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2
Apache Ivy 2.3.0-rc2

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