Tim, > A thought I had at the time of the <help> conversation hooks up > nicely here. > Why not simply have an optional nested element for <target> > called <description> > or something like that, which provided verbiage of what the task does, who > should use it etc. Then the proposed 'ant -targets' could print > descriptions > along with the list of targets. For most people, I *hope*, this > would simply be > an exercise of moving text from some XML comments into a defined > element....
Agreed. Pretty much agrees with what I suggested, I think. My point was that a list of targets, on its own lacks enough information to be useful but enough to be dangerous. I would prefer -targets therefore to be changed to support printing this help information. Perhaps -targets is no longer an appropriate option label. It should become a general project information dump, printing project level help, a list of targets, with their associated help. Perhaps -info or -docs? I am not too keen on the "private" flag for targets, though. thoughts? Marcel?
