tar.gz distribution file. Why?Ant'distibution contains file names which are longer +
Ant's distibution contains file names that are longer than 100 characters, which is not supported by the standard - tar file format. Several different implementations of tar use + tar file format. Several different implementations of tar use different and incompatible ways to work around this restriction.
-Ant' <tar> task can create tar archives that use +
Ant's <tar> task can create tar archives that use the GNU tar extension, and this has been used when putting - together the distribution. If you are using a different - version of tar (for example the one shipping with Solaris), + together the distribution. If you are using a different + version of tar (for example, the one shipping with Solaris), you cannot use it to extract the archive.
The solution is to either install GNU tar, which can be
found here
or use the zip archive instead (you can extract it using
- jar cf).
jar xf).
You can use XML's way of including external files and let +
You can use XML's way of including external files and let the parser do the job for Ant:
will literally include the contents of common.xml where - you've placed the &common; entity.
+will literally include the contents of common.xml where
+ you've placed the &common; entity.
In combination with a DTD this would look like this:
+In combination with a DTD, this would look like this: