----- Original Message ----- From: "Yyy Xxx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:48 Subject: Re: Suggestions for documentation & exec
> Thank you, Phil, for your outputproperty example. But > I'm actually looking for an "rcproperty" attribute. > I'd like to have the return code of the exec made > visible to ant. > > For instance, suppose I exec a program and want to > take action if the program fails. I could use the > failonerror attribute and have the ant build fail. > But it would be better if I could fail more > gracefully. > agreed. Also RC codes can do more; you could have an app which returned a crytpographically strong random number which you use in some other part of the build. Why dont you file it as a feature request on bugzilla? -steve
