Thanks Diane, Now iam very clear on that. regards DK
----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:03 PM Subject: Re: Installation problem > --- Dhirendra Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is it that if at all i want to customise any task then only i need > > source?. If iam using ant built in tasks with my own build.xml fie then > > i do not need source? > > > > I did whatever u said and ran the sample build.xml u had written and > > it is successful > > > > Now i want clearly understand this > > If you're just using Ant as your build-tool, you don't need any of the Ant > source -- just put your build-process together into Ant build-files and > run 'ant' accordingly. > > If you want to write a new task, you shouldn't need the Ant source, either > . You should be able to just compile your own task source-file(s), using > 'ant', which will include Ant's jar-files in the classpath. > > If you need to modify tasks that are already written and part of Ant, > then, yes, you'd need the source-files for those tasks you want to modify. > (But it's best to avoid having to modify Ant's tasks if at all possible, > since then you're out-of-sync with standard Ant, which will make upgrading > to new releases a bit of a pain.) > > Diane > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com
