<subant> is stand alone (not the very latest version with the dependency stuff), i.e. a single Java file. The version integrated to Ant removes the magic of inferring the target to call from the current target (which is why you thought all the targets do the same thing... They all call a different target name, which defaults to the one they are declared within, if not is explicitly specified.
Even if it's removed from Ant 1.6 official, nothing prevents you (or me) to continue using it. The choice is yours. --DD -----Original Message----- From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:58 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Ant task and dirset/fileset Hmm I notice that the source is marked as experimental and subject to change. Is this still true? To what extent. I am slightly leary of upgrading to an alpha branch for our builds, particularly if the compelling feature is going to be a moving target :) Also in your example buildfile, I am not sure I understand how the targets work. It looks like clean, build reversion and rebuild all do the same thing? -Gus Dominique Devienne wrote: > No doc, no test :-( > > Subant accept a <buildpath>, which is a regular <path> (accepts nested > <fileset>, <dirset>, etc... > > Subant's buildpath can be specified either outside (and referenced using > buildpathref) or inside (subant contains an implicit buildpath, so you can > add a <dirset> or <buildpathelement> directly within subant). > > All files all the build path (it's a path, so it's ordered) that is a > directory is appended build.xml, or the value of the 'antfile' attribute if > specified. By default, subant calls the target it's defined within > automatically, or the target explicitly defined in the 'target' attribute. > > Supports all <ant> attributes (except 'dir' and 'output') and nested > elements, and adds the 'failonerror' attribute, and nested > <fileset>/<filelist>/<buildpath>/<buildpathelement>/<dirset> elements to > compose the build path within. > > Hope that helps. --DD > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:07 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Ant task and dirset/fileset > > Ok I searched bugzilla and subant appears exactly once... but it says it > is committed. Problem is I don't see it in the manual, where can I get > some doc for it? (or do I need to go find that link to the xdocs that I > forgot to bookmark?) > > -Gus > > Dominique Devienne wrote: > >>Yes ;-) Me, and other people too. There is in Ant's BugZilla one task > > called > >><subant> that was recently added to the HEAD (slightly modified) on an >>experimental basis, and there's also a patch to <ant> along the same > > lines. > >>There has been quite a bit of discussion about both (one vs. the other > > even) > >>on ant-dev as well. You should look it all up. >> >>As the original author and user of <subant>, I can tell you it's working >>just fine for me. Here's one of my build files, for example. Should be >>familiar to Makefile writers (it does build C++ libraries after all ;-) >> >><?xml version="1.0"?> >> >><project name="Gocad" default="build"> >> >> <taskdef resource="com/lgc/buildmagic/tasks.properties" /> >> <typedef resource="com/lgc/buildmagic/types.properties" /> >> >> <buildpath id="buildpath"> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/utils/utils.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/math/math.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/geobase/geobase.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/lines/lines.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/surfaces/surfaces.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/volumes/volumes.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/tgobjs/tgobjs.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/appli/appli.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/ascii/ascii.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/archive/archive.xml" /> >> <pathelement location="src/lib/gapi/gapi.xml" /> >> </buildpath> >> >> <target name="clean"> >> <subant buildpathref="buildpath" /> >> </target> >> >> <target name="build"> >> <subant buildpathref="buildpath" /> >> </target> >> >> <target name="reversion"> >> <subant buildpathref="buildpath" /> >> </target> >> >> <target name="rebuild"> >> <subant buildpathref="buildpath" /> >> </target> >> >></project> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:34 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Ant task and dirset/fileset >> >>Has anyone ever thought about or tried to make the ant task accept a >>fileset or dirset? I have a use for such functionality but, before I go >>writing myself a custom version, or writing a patch, I thought I might >>ask if this has been tried, is being tried, or has be explicitly decided >>against? >> >>-Gus >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
