Re: Opening a sourcesafe database using VSSGET

2001-01-10 Thread Nico Seessle
- Original Message - From: "Vineet Bhatia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: Opening a sourcesafe database using VSSGET > Hi all, > > I keep getting a User not found error when I try to Get a file using this > command line - >

Re: Parameterized "task-function"

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Rosenberg
- Original Message - From: "David Corbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Parameterized "task-function" > > B) eventually, I hope ANT will support an include. When it does, I'll > want to be able to "pass arguments" f

Re: Possible to use JDK 1.3 with Ant 1.2?

2001-01-10 Thread Diane Holt
--- Randy O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was getting errors with jdk 1.3 so I moved back to 1.2.2 What kind of errors do you get? > -- however I just saw someone post that they're using jdk 1.3 so I was > wondering what kind of configuration changes I would need to do in order > to use th

Re: Want: command line option

2001-01-10 Thread Diane Holt
--- Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:52 10/1/01 -0500, David Corbin wrote: > > I'd like to see a command line option which simply spits out the > > targets in the build file. As an extension to this concept, I could > > see the > > ability to specify (in the build file) that certa

Re: Parameterized "task-function"

2001-01-10 Thread David Dabbs
David, Here's one possibility. I've successfuly employed this for 'aggregating' together several tasks I wanted to 'drive' with a fixed list of files loaded from a Manifest file. Create a new, custom task called . It should extend MatchingTask and accept whatever common attributes you're interes

Re: Want: command line option

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 07:52 10/1/01 -0500, David Corbin wrote: >I'd like to see a command line option which simply spits out the targets >in the build file. As an extension to this concept, I could see the >ability to specify (in the build file) that certain targets should NOT >be shown here. I believe the option

Re: Why "build.xml"?

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 07:50 10/1/01 -0500, David Corbin wrote: >Can I suggest that ant also look for a file "build.ant" by default? I'm >not suggesting breaking backward compatability. > >When I first started working with xml, I too used .xml as the default >file type. But in reality, while it IS an .xml file, it

Re: command line option

2001-01-10 Thread Martin Cooper
I just got into the habit of adding a target to all my build files that does exactly that. So, for instance, I might have a target like this: If you have targets that you don't want to display, then of course you just wouldn't add

RE: Want: command line option

2001-01-10 Thread Conor MacNeill
Try ant -projecthelp It sorts out the ones with descriptions as being "more signfificant" -- Conor MacNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cortex eBusiness http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au > -Original Message- > From: dcorbin [mailto:dcorbin]On Behalf Of David Corbin > Sent: Wednesday, 10

Want: command line option

2001-01-10 Thread David Corbin
I'd like to see a command line option which simply spits out the targets in the build file. As an extension to this concept, I could see the ability to specify (in the build file) that certain targets should NOT be shown here. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://w

Why "build.xml"?

2001-01-10 Thread David Corbin
Can I suggest that ant also look for a file "build.ant" by default? I'm not suggesting breaking backward compatability. When I first started working with xml, I too used .xml as the default file type. But in reality, while it IS an .xml file, it is also an ANT file, and have a "filetype" that i

Re: Parameterized "task-function"

2001-01-10 Thread David Corbin
> David Dabbs wrote: > > > Has any thought been given to being able to construct a task from > > several tasks, and have it parameterized? I realize this can be > cobbled > > together with targets and properties, but we all know that's a lousy > > > solution, don't we? > > Do you have a use ca

Opening a sourcesafe database using VSSGET

2001-01-10 Thread Vineet Bhatia
Hi all, I keep getting a User not found error when I try to Get a file using this command line - ss Get $/version_1/readmeforprod.doc CPCode -GLC:\temp -I- -R -Yvbhatia,sa Password: sa User "vbhatia" not found Also, is there a way to open a sourcesafe database located on a remote server using V

Re: Submitting optional tasks

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 03:25 10/1/01 -0800, Sean Kelly wrote: >What's the procedure for getting our own >developed tasks under the aegis of >optional.jar for the world to use, share, >adore, etc.? Send/discuss them on the ant-dev mailing list ;) Cheers, Pete *-

Submitting optional tasks

2001-01-10 Thread Sean Kelly
What's the procedure for getting our own developed tasks under the aegis of optional.jar for the world to use, share, adore, etc.? --k

Re: interactive - done or should I write my own

2001-01-10 Thread Filip Hanik
problem solved. here is the code for making your own task that asks for user password during the jarsigning thing this should get anybody who wants to write interactive tasks on top of the ant built int tasks. you just overwrite the setAttribute methods don't forget to add the taskdef into your b

Re: exclude in javac?

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 09:17 10/1/01 +, Ritendra Sinha wrote: > >Hi, > >In my following ant target (javac) I find that the three files that I ask to be excluded from the build process are also built. > >I assume this is not the expected behaviour. Has anyone found a way around this problem or am I doing somethin

Re: Using Xalan with Ant's built-in Stlye task

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 02:38 10/1/01 -0800, Mike Van Riper wrote: >Hello, > >I'm cross posting this to the Xalan and Ant lists due to the problem being >one of integration between the two of them. I would like to use Ant to >automate the running of my XSL transformations. I have the binary versions >of Ant 1.2 and X

Re: CLASSPATH versus EXTDIRS and "compiler not available"

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 01:19 10/1/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >But, it's a bit messy to have ant.jar, jaxp.jar and parser.jar in my $CLASSPATH, >so I tried changing the wrapper script a bit to invoke the java engine with the >-Djava.ext.dirs property set to point to the directory which contains those >jars.

RE: Can't find version 1.2

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 10:03 10/1/01 -0700, Walter Holladay wrote: >I downloaded "jakarta-ant-bin.tar.gz" (once again) from the link below. >However, when type "ant -version" I get the following: > >"Ant version 1.1 compiled on July 18 2000" > >Am I crazy? What's going on?! Check where you have ANT_HOME set and mak

Using Xalan with Ant's built-in Stlye task

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Van Riper
Hello, I'm cross posting this to the Xalan and Ant lists due to the problem being one of integration between the two of them. I would like to use Ant to automate the running of my XSL transformations. I have the binary versions of Ant 1.2 and Xalan-Java version 2.0.D06 installed in my environment

interactive - done or should I write my own

2001-01-10 Thread Filip Hanik
is there a task that asks the user to type in a value and assign that to a property? like a password for example. we don't want our buildscripts to contain the password for our keystore when using the jarsigner thanks Filip Filip Hanik Technical Architect Pakana Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415

RE: ejbjar weblogic problems!

2001-01-10 Thread Saket Raizada
hi folks, Sorry for the high traffic i am generating but i could just deploy the Ejb file. thanks to Conor,Dan Smith and host of other fellows ,their earlier discussions helped me a lot. I used this code only but what wonders me is that i have to change my ejb-jar.xml to DomainTable-ejb

RE: classpath conditional on OS

2001-01-10 Thread rwaldhof
Title: RE: classpath conditional on OS Tim, Ant doesn't care whether you use "\" or "/" to seperate directories in paths, nor whether you use ":" or ";" to seperate paths in things like classpaths, even when they're mixed.  It essentially treats "/" or "\" and ":" or ";" as the same thing.

exclude in javac?

2001-01-10 Thread Ritendra Sinha
Hi, In my following ant target (javac) I find that the three files that I ask to be excluded from the build process are also built. I assume this is not the expected behaviour. Has anyone found a way around this problem or am I doing something wrong. Thanks for your help in advance.

Hats off to all Ant developers

2001-01-10 Thread Filip Hanik
I just started using it, after only two days of building out our buildscripts we have a completely automated and dynamic release management environment. The ANT tool is awesome, better than anything I have seen. It took me about five minutes to write my own task for proprietary deployment tasks.

ejbjar weblogic problems!

2001-01-10 Thread Saket Raizada
hi, as pointed by conor in one of old archives that the name of weblogic xml should be like EJBeanName-weblogic-cmp-ejb-jar.xml etc... I use this code using this got me this error [copy] Copying 2 files to D:\workspace\saket\IBA\java\classes\com\claimiq\common\data\domain\

RE: Can't find version 1.2

2001-01-10 Thread Walter Holladay
Oops! I had an older version of ant.jar in my JDK's lib/ext directory. Thanks! -Original Message- From: KC Baltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Can't find version 1.2 Are you sure you don't have an older versio

RE: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Donie
Title: RE: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks Thanks - that is exactly what I wanted. The documentation is sometimes very dense/terse, and could use many more examples. There are also some inconsistencies - i.e. in the PatternSets section, it says the attribute name is

RE: Possible to use JDK 1.3 with Ant 1.2?

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Boehle
I use Ant 1.2 with Sun JDK 1.3 on Win2000 everyday with no problems. My build file is pretty small and not very complex, though. Jason Boehle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Randy O'Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

classpath conditional on OS

2001-01-10 Thread Tim Veazey
Hello, I'm fairly new to ant. I want to set some properties to be used in the classpath according to the os that ant is running on. Basically, something like... sunos = (os.name.equals("SunOS")) ? true : false; sep = (sunos) ? "/" : "\"; classroot = (sunos) ? sep + "root" : "R:" + sep; Is th

RE: Can't find version 1.2

2001-01-10 Thread Diane Holt
--- Walter Holladay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded "jakarta-ant-bin.tar.gz" (once again) from the link below. > However, when type "ant -version" I get the following: > > "Ant version 1.1 compiled on July 18 2000" > > Am I crazy? What's going on?! I just downloaded the jakarta-ant-bi

Possible to use JDK 1.3 with Ant 1.2?

2001-01-10 Thread Randy O'Neil
I'm new to this list - I'm sure this has been convered, but... I was getting errors with jdk 1.3 so I moved back to 1.2.2 -- however I just saw someone post that they're using jdk 1.3 so I was wondering what kind of configuration changes I would need to do in order to use the newest jdk. Thank

RE: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks

2001-01-10 Thread David Dabbs
Title: RE: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks Steve, You should be able to specify your "includesfile" in a PatternSet. Such as:     Check out the Ant docs for PatternSet and FileSet. David Dabbs         -Original Message- From: Steve Donie

ejbjar weblogic problems!

2001-01-10 Thread Saket Raizada
hi , thanks to you people and esp Conor I have came a long way but Now a new problem I have source classes in $build.classes and XML's (3 of them 1 for ejb-jar.xml and 2 for weblogic(weblogic-ejb-jar.xml and weblogic-cmp...) Now i want to generate a deployable jar from them! using generates

RE: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Donie
Title: Specifying explicit file lists (FileSets) in MatchingTasks I too would like to be able to do something like this. Right now (early in the process of this project) we have set up some .txt files that have lists of files that need to be RMIC'd, added to a client-side jar, or added to a s

RE: Can't find version 1.2

2001-01-10 Thread KC Baltz
Are you sure you don't have an older version of ant in your path somewhere? Try setting your path to just the ant directory because Ant is bundled with a few other programs now. K.C. > -Original Message- > From: Walter Holladay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 10,

CLASSPATH versus EXTDIRS and "compiler not available"

2001-01-10 Thread David . Bailey
I have discovered an annoying inconsistency . I am using ANT 1.2 with jdk1.3 ("modern" compiler). In order to make sure I can access all of the proper .jar files, I have put ant.jar, jaxp.jar and parser.jar at the end of my $CLASSPATH in my shell. I have also modified the ant.sh script which

RE: Can't find version 1.2

2001-01-10 Thread Walter Holladay
I downloaded "jakarta-ant-bin.tar.gz" (once again) from the link below. However, when type "ant -version" I get the following: "Ant version 1.1 compiled on July 18 2000" Am I crazy? What's going on?! -Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,