----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:38 PM Subject: Re: build.exe
> > - The source looked ugly to me (I reformatted it a little bit) > I am the only person in the world who formats C++ code in that particular > way (lining > up left and right curly braces) Don't know how it should have looked (I can live with nearly anything, since one of our developers in the czech republic uses something he call "kernigan and ritchie"-style (don't even know if I have got the names right) while programming in Java :-( > > - It didn't worked for me without passing any argument (it passed "null" > to > > main() instead of an empty array) > I guess it should probably spit out a usage message. That was mainly a problem of Ant - it simply didn't expect to *not* get a String[] passed to main() (I don't think something like this can happen normally). > > Some problems remain: > > - Doesn't work with JDK 1.1 (Don't know how to start a VM?) > > The invocation API is entirely different with 1.1 JVMs. Is it worth > supporting 1.1 JVM's? > I have just mentioned it for completeness - personally I don't have a problem with running Ant under JDK 1.3/1.4, even if the Application I'm building is based mainly on MS's VM. It's just that current Ant versions state that they are mostly compatible with JDK 1.1. > > - You can't pass any arguments to the VM (to specify memory sizes) > > How do we differentiate between arguments meant for the VM and arguments > meant for ANT? > I don't know - maybe just pass anything that starts with a "-"-sign to the JVM or start VM-Parameters with -J-realarg like some other apps are doing it. Nico
