Since we have explicit use targets, we're able to
display context-sensitive help. For example, info on
the dist-war task will only appear if your project
contains a webapp. However, this is open for debate.
Using description attributes may be simpler.
Are we willing to attempt a single build script for
all the Commons projects? If so, I'd be perfectly
willing to donate the initial script.
--- Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 05:13 2/4/01 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter Donald wrote:
> >
> >> At 10:14 2/4/01 -0700, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> >> > use* - generate a standard help message,
> including
> >> > which targets are valid for this
> project
> >>
> >
> >One habit I'm starting to apply is to include
> "description" attributes on
> >the targets that I expect a user to be likely to
> invoke directly. Then,
> >the "ant -projecthelp" command nicely segregates
> these targets and
> >documents them, without having to maintain a
> separate "use" target.
>
> Agreed - all my new help/usage targets now do
> something like
>
> <echo message="Please run ant --projecthelp for a
> full description of
> usage" />
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
>
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