Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >>>>> "BK" == Bill Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BK> Has the list ever discussed making it easier to do repeated > BK> actions, or specify many similar sub-tasks using loops or > BK> sub-tasks or some existing feature I've missed? > > Yes and no. Procedural logic has been ruled out several times
I suspected as much - but I think the price you pay in avoiding it by doing copy-paste in your XML file is very high. > you are going to find that <ant> could help you out here. > ...So "procedure calls" are already supported. True, ant tasks let you parameterize values, and they have no 'memory' from one task to the next, so you can use the same target. > What's missing now is the loop construct if you don't want to retype > the stuff all over and over again. You could use the <script> task or > write your own Java task to get this. Hadn't used it up to now, but the examples look quite useful. Thanks for the tip. > Somewhat off topic: > > BK> The JUnit task provides its own solution to this, but again in a > BK> very specific way. > > The task you are referring is different from the one in the Ant > distribution, do you think we could merge some useful features from it > with the version in Ant's current CVS tree. I know that you and Tom Haas worked on JUnit integration I looked at junit.html from the latest build, and thought it looked recognizably similar to the version I have from Tom, but I see there are some major differences. We can talk off-line.
