Will there be any coverage of ant-contrib's cppptasks? This sounds like an extremely powerful and cool project for the ant community.
Thank You, Anthony > To further what Steve has said about our forthcoming book [1,2], we are > covering much more than would even be reasonable for the Ant docs. We > cover lots of real-world situations from web development, XML issues, EJB > projects, and Web Services. These involve several 3rd party tools such as > XDoclet, Cactus, Middlegen, and others, which really do not make sense to > be documented in Ant's own manual. If real-world build/test/deploy issues > are what you want to see written about, our book is it. Its going to be > ~550+ pages. > > We do not repeat Ant's docs at all besides, as Steve mentioned, to include > an Appendix task reference which is code generated using XDoclet, <concat>, > <xslt>, and a few fiddly Microsoft Word style changes. As a matter of fact, > I'll probably include a brief summary of the steps used to auto-generate > the task reference. Look for the Javadocs in Ant's codebase to dramatically > improve in the next week or so as we clean them up to make generating > documentation much cleaner (not just for our book, for Ant's future > documentation as well!). > > I worked with Hightower and Lesiecki on the Java Tools book (wrote bits of > the HttpUnit stuff, but that is all other than perusing it as it was in > progress) - and definitely expressed concerns on their Ant work to them. > In all fairness, they wrote that book in 1/4 of the time Steve and I have > been spending on our book and they did a bang-up job considering their > constraints. I personally did not understand why the Ant API was printed > there, as its irrelevant to almost all Ant users, and the few it is > relevant to would probably use the current Javadocs instead. > > [1] http://www.manning.com/antbook/ > [2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110588 > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:42 PM > Subject: RE: Ant: The Definitive Guide (Orielly) > > > And, what does the book provide that the online docs do not? For > > example, > > I > > > have a copy of "Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source > > Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus". THe sections on Ant are really > > weak. If you'd never seen Ant before, they'd help, but it doesn't even > > cover as much as the online docs (and in fact, even says to go read the > > "Ant > > > in Anger" article first :) > > > > If the Definitive Guide book gets really in-depth and provides a lot of > > examples of really complicated build needs, that might be useful (e.g. > > I'm thinking that a "Cookbook" version would be more useful). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
