So this is some long running process? It sits there & blocks until a change is dropped?
I think we need more details. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care ca...@us.ibm.com IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS Release Engineering Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> wrote on 03/09/2012 04:15:40 PM: > From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> > To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> > Date: 03/09/2012 04:17 PM > Subject: Re: Tasks to be contributed > > Thank you Stephan for your time. > Ok, so let's ask here. I wrote a task that monitors a directory for > file changes and when changes > occur it triggers another task. This task helps me a lot in > recompiling the modified code and copy resource files > to the destination in case of a webapp. > I think others may find it useful, especially those who doesn't use an > IDE all the time. > I wrote this task for my usage, and it uses java 1.7 NIO. Before I > contribute something like this, I will need to rewrite it to > use the currently supported java versions. > > the task is very simple: > <monitor dir="src/main/java" targetTask="compile" /> > > Which works great for me. > I may have to rewrite to use resource and to make it consistent with > the rest of the task. > > So my question, do other users think this can be useful for the community ? > > > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 2012-03-09, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > > > >> How do the community decide what tasks to be added to the distribution > >> and what to be distributed some where else. > > > > The people who write the tasks and want to see them included with Ant > > ask on the dev list (or attach them to Ant's bugzilla) and if a > > committer feels like committing the task it will be done. If the task > > may be controversial in scope, this likely won't happen without > > discussion. > > > >> For example, some tasks from ant-contribution are widely used. > > > > Most if not all of these have not been written with the intention to > > include them in Ant. The people behind the ant-contrib project are a > > separate bunch of people from the Ant dev team even if some have been on > > both teams at one point in time. > > > >> How do I know if a task can be contributed and added to the core ? > > > > Ask for the concrete task 8-) > > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >
