just use ant -projecthelp instead of ant help ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guthrie, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: Ant design question(s) - #2
> I am converting some old makefile-based builds to ant and I have a couple of > design questions... here's the second > > I want to have a "help" target that will list out all the possible targets > in the build.xml. There are three ways I think I could implement it, from > easiest-and-ugliest getting more elegant (my opinion) but also requiring > more work. Again, suggestions and opinions are welcome. Ideas are: > A. just put in a bunch of "echo" tasks stating what I want stated. Makes > for a big ugly target > B. put help info in a separate file and write a "cat" taskdef (couldn't > find one in my ant distro, 1.4.1) that cat's it out. build.xml looks much > nicer > C. write a taskdef that gets an enumeration of all targets in a build.xml > (I figure that is accessible somewhere in ant), maybe matches up targets > with a property file of explanations and generates a help statement from > that (targets that are not in the prop file get listed with no explanation). > This one is obviously a bit more work. > > thnaks! > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > john guthrie > american institutes for research > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 202-298-2716 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
