[platform-ant-dev] Fixing Ant bug in a plugin?

["Kirk Wolf" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a nasty bug in Ant 1.7 that prevents the <ftp> <modified> tag from working properly.

See: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45010

The fix to this is very simple (changing one line in an Ant class).

I'd
like to package a patched Ant class into a jar and include that jar
into a plugin that my users can use with Eclipse to simplify fixing
this problem.

- Can I do this with an extension point that adds the jar to the beginning of the Ant classpath?
- Can I make the extension conditional on having the Ant 1.7 plugin?

I'm a newbie to writing plugins, can anyone help me with the plugin.xml to do this?

Thanks, 
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies