Would it be possible for the next release of Hibernate Tools to include two separate downloads, one that contains everything needed for running in Eclipse, and one that just includes the tools for Ant? I'm only interested in using the <hibernatetool> Ant task for schema generation, and having to download that 32MB monster of a ZIP file and then dig around 4 or 5 unintuitively-named (Eclipse-specific) directories just to find hibernatetool.jar (and its dependencies, which currently can only be determined by trial and error) is a huge PITA. A package like this would be nice:

HibernateTool-ant-###.zip
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hibernatetool.jar
lib/
(required libraries go here)
doc/
(javadocs for the provided classes go here)
README
LICENSE
yadayada


Pretty please! :-)

so this is not optimal and not sure if there is any optimal solution.

The libraries are actually very easy....just use the jars that are distributed with hibernate tools - then everything will work together.

If we do a hibernate-tools distribution only you would still get close to alot of megs since all the dependencies (including hibernate) gets big.

What we want to end up with is actually that the hibernate tools/ant stuff gets merged/piggy-backed onto the hibernate distro.

Having the Ant stuff included in the main Hibernate distro is fine with me (it would probably even be preferable to having it be a separate package). I just don't want to have to dig through a bunch of Eclipse plugin directories just to be able to use an Ant task.