Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jon Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a result of feature request after feature request I ended up > scraping it and writing the whole thing from scratching with a > XML/ElementName/Processor framework which allows people to go out > and do their own things without doing a

RE: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
> Perhaps a more formal feature voting process should be evolved to gauge > the true user interest in potential feature additions. How that can be > accomplished is unclear. > This can be achieved by creating an enhancement request in BugZilla and then voting for it. Of course, that doesn't guar

RE: Ant task for gcj compilation?

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
Carfield, If you are not able to contribute one yourself, the best thing to do would be to create an enhancement request in BugZilla http://nagoya.apache.org Conor > -Original Message- > From: Carfield Yim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 3:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Ant task for gcj compilation?

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:09, Carfield Yim wrote: >> In the near future, will ant include a task for compilation java >> code in gnu gcc java compiler? > > If someone was willing to code it or send patches then yep ;) A patch is in bug

Re: files in ant/bin

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steffen Euch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And is expecting them in '$ANT_HOME/bin'? The Execute class which happens to be used by as well as a few other tasks is expecting it in ${ant.home}/bin - the wrapper scripts set this property from ANT_HOME or if that was not set. t

Re: Ant task for gcj compilation?

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:09, Carfield Yim wrote: > In the near future, will ant include a task for compilation java code in > gnu gcc java compiler? If someone was willing to code it or send patches then yep ;) However I don't know of any imediate plans for someone to implement it. Cheers, Pete

Ant task for gcj compilation?

2001-07-26 Thread Carfield Yim
In the near future, will ant include a task for compilation java code in gnu gcc java compiler? -- Carfield Yim, visit my homepage at http://www.carfield.com.hk

Deploying to Weblogic 6

2001-07-26 Thread Steven Leija
Title: Message Hey All,   Sorry if this is a repeat posting.  I'm relatively new to coding Ant.  Is it possible to hot deploy to Weblogic 6.0 with Ant?  I know how to simply put it into the appropriate directory, but is there a way to actually add it to the Deployment Descriptors from Ant?

Re: Strange java/fork behavior with xalan

2001-07-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Conor MacNeill wrote: > > > From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > BTW, it would be nice if embedding ant was considered as a design > > criteria in the next major release. Ant seems to work very well if run > > standalone or from a script but running from Java is tough at least

Re: [PATCH] Updated FTP.java

2001-07-26 Thread Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
Will do. Sorry. Conor MacNeill wrote: > > Larry, > > Just for future reference, can you submit patches to ant-dev. > > Cheers > Conor > > > -Original Message- > > From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 3:56 AM > > To: ant user mail list

RE: Strange java/fork behavior with xalan

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
> From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > BTW, it would be nice if embedding ant was considered as a design > criteria in the next major release. Ant seems to work very well if run > standalone or from a script but running from Java is tough at least as > far as I've tried so far(Alth

RE: symbolic links - preventing Ant Traversal

2001-07-26 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: RE: symbolic links - preventing Ant Traversal Thanks for the confirmation. I worked around it by calling a perl script that performs the removal. -steve Steve Nesbitt Configuration Manager The Cobalt Group, Inc. 2200 First Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cobal

RE: [PATCH] Updated FTP.java

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
Larry, Just for future reference, can you submit patches to ant-dev. Cheers Conor > -Original Message- > From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 3:56 AM > To: ant user mail list > Subject: [PATCH] Updated FTP.java > > > I have made one enha

RE: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
You presumably could run ssh-agent to enter the passphrase before starting Ant. I haven't verified that this will work when execing scp from Ant. > -Original Message- > From: Klara Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 3:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE:

RE: Forcing a (Windoze) Reboot from Ant?

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
> From: Stephane Bailliez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This is definitely not the Ant goal to do a reboot, otherwise we will soon > have to change Ant to make coffee and pancakes. Can you send me the taskdefs for these, except I need a task. :-) Conor

RE: Jikes and ANT's optional ejbc task (was: external compiler task)

2001-07-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
Peter, Can you please raise an enhancement request on http://nagoya.apache.org for this. Conor > -Original Message- > From: Peter Vandenberk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2001 4:06 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Jikes and ANT's optional ejbc task (wa

Re: Strange java/fork behavior with xalan

2001-07-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Two notes upfront: > > (1) If your replace parser.jar with crimson.jar and jaxp.jar with the > version of JAXP 1.1, I think xalan2 should work without forking (I may > be wrong). Since I'm combining

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Glenn McAllister
"healey, alex" wrote: > >Naah. If you use public/private key system you never have to enter a > >passphrase ... ever ;) I don't even know my passwords on most systems I > have > >accounts on because I don't need it ;) > > Surely this means it is insecure or you are assuming total physical

Re: JUnit task problems

2001-07-26 Thread T Master
you need optional.jar in the ant_home/lib directory. Get it from where you got ant. - Original Message - From: "Trig Gullberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: JUnit task problems > Hello, > I could use some help getting the jun

JUnit task problems

2001-07-26 Thread Trig Gullberg
Hello, I could use some help getting the junit task to work. I have copied junit.jar into the $ANT_HOME/lib dir and I also have it referenced in my $CLASSPATH yet I still get this error when I run ant: Could not create task of type: junit. Common solutions are to use taskdef to declare your task

Re: changing directories

2001-07-26 Thread Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
If you're using the exec task, then use the "dir" attribute to specify the directory in which to start the process. Jason Rogers wrote: > > Hi. I'm new to Ant, so be gentle... > > I want to do cvs imports with Ant. Theoretically this is possible, but the > tricky part is being in the right di

RE: CVS Problems with home directory

2001-07-26 Thread Jason Rogers
Directory issues come to mind... > -Original Message- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CVS Problems with home directory > > > I have a ANT build script which runs fine on li

CVS Problems with home directory

2001-07-26 Thread Jeff
I have a ANT build script which runs fine on linux and Win2000. I have a buildalll.bat file for setting the paths and executing ANT on the windows box. The bat files works fine when run from the command-line. When run as a 'Scheduled Job' I get the following problem from the CVS task: cvs [chec

changing directories

2001-07-26 Thread Jason Rogers
Hi. I'm new to Ant, so be gentle... I want to do cvs imports with Ant. Theoretically this is possible, but the tricky part is being in the right directory when you do it. Is there any way to change directories on the fly? It doesn't seem that there should be, but I'm just checking. -Jason Ro

RE: Can I convert a classpath element to a property?

2001-07-26 Thread O'Hara, Patrick
Title: Can I convert a classpath element to a property? Thanks Peter and Natalia, it works well.   Patrick O'Hara 262-408-3849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Natalia Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:50 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: C

[PATCH] Updated FTP.java

2001-07-26 Thread Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
I have made one enhancement and one bug fix to FTP.java. 1. The enhancement is to support a "mkdir" action. With this action, the specified "remotedir" is created using a normal FTP MKDIR command. 2. The bug fix changes the isUpToDate test to prevent a build failure when the remote file doesn't

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Jon Baer
Not that this might have anything to do with this, but over at alicebot.org we (or @ least I face the same problems), I love the project and being the lead developer but there are only so many people you can please when it comes down to features. I actually find Ant and Alice quite similar in tas

links in javadoc

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Starkie
I have the following target in build.xml (see below). I don't see the @see and @param tags created as url links in the resulting javadocs. In other words I have a source code file in the myproject package called HelloWorld.java. The HellowWorld class extends javax.servlet.HttpServlet. The

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:30, Mike Deibler wrote: > Can we quantify the number of people who really want these features? I don't know of any good way of doing it ... we can't even quantify how many ant users there are ;) > Basing the result on the messages on this list won't give a good > represen

RE: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Title: RE: target as a property > -Original Message- > From: Mike Deibler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: target as a property > > Can we quantify the number of people who really want these features? We'll never get this resolved this way. This is basically the old cathedr

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Deibler
Can we quantify the number of people who really want these features? Basing the result on the messages on this list won't give a good representation. Are the list members a good cross-section of all ant users? Are the posts even representative of the list members in general (i.e. how many uninter

RE: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread healey, alex
>Naah. If you use public/private key system you never have to enter a >passphrase ... ever ;) I don't even know my passwords on most systems I have >accounts on because I don't need it ;) Surely this means it is insecure or you are assuming total physical security of your computer (so that it i

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
Oh, and I forgot to mention my favourite quote "The path to perl is paved with good intentions" ;) On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:35, Peter Donald wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:04, Christopher Berry wrote: > > This seems to be a recurring theme in the Ant world. > > It is a theme in virtually every f

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:04, Christopher Berry wrote: > This seems to be a recurring theme in the Ant world. It is a theme in virtually every freesoftware project that is innovative or takes a different tact. If you lurk on some of the more "innovative" projects you will see the same issues reocc

Re: files in ant/bin

2001-07-26 Thread Steffen Euch
Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steffen Euch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>But what's the purpose of antRun, antRun.bat >> > > Helper scripts that work around a missing feature in JDK < 1.3. > They change the working directory before they execute a command - this > is to suppor

RE: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Filip Cruz
Thanks, Paul I'll give it a try. At 11:36 AM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I'm doing SSH deployment using SecureCRT. >SecureCRT has VCP command line utility to transfer files over SSH. >One problem - you can't input password during deployment so I'm providing it >in a password file. > >Here is an

RE: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Christopher Berry
This seems to be a recurring theme in the Ant world. I would like to add something:: Great software is grown. It evolves. It is constantly rethought, and refactored. The most important thing we can do is listen -- listen to the code, and listen to the User's of that code. Feedback is critical.

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 03:08, Klara Ward wrote: > But I suppose the only way of doing this without human interaction is > having an empty passphrase? > (I tried scp:ing in an expect script to enter the passphrase automatically, > but it didn't work.) Naah. If you use public/private key system you ne

RE: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Paul Perevalov
I'm doing SSH deployment using SecureCRT. SecureCRT has VCP command line utility to transfer files over SSH. One problem - you can't input password during deployment so I'm providing it in a password file. Here is an example of target:

RE: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Klara Ward
But I suppose the only way of doing this without human interaction is having an empty passphrase? (I tried scp:ing in an expect script to enter the passphrase automatically, but it didn't work.) Klara > -Original Message- > From: Filip Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 26 juli

Re: files in ant/bin

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steffen Euch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what's the purpose of antRun, antRun.bat Helper scripts that work around a missing feature in JDK < 1.3. They change the working directory before they execute a command - this is to support the dir attribute of . > and runant.pl

Re: files in ant/bin

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:42, Steffen Euch wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a question about the puropose of some files in ant/bin: > > 'ant' and 'ant.bat' run Ant. > 'lcp.bat' is used by ant.bat and builds a local classpath. > But what's the purpose of antRun, antRun.bat and runant.pl? runant.pl is the pe

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:22, Larry V. Streepy, Jr. wrote: > I will maintain a calm, friendly, debate style tone... > > Pete, I am really trying to understand why figuring out all the possible > ways I might use a feature, then determining if you aren't a fan any of > the possible uses, is the right

files in ant/bin

2001-07-26 Thread Steffen Euch
Hi! I've got a question about the puropose of some files in ant/bin: 'ant' and 'ant.bat' run Ant. 'lcp.bat' is used by ant.bat and builds a local classpath. But what's the purpose of antRun, antRun.bat and runant.pl? Thanx! Steffen

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Filip Cruz
Cool! I'll give it a try. At 01:26 AM 7/27/2001 +1000, you wrote: >On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:17, Filip Cruz wrote: > > Sorry, > > I am trying to use Ant to deploy to our production servers through SSH. In > > brief I want to be able to deploy the files over SSH to the server from a > > task in the A

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:17, Filip Cruz wrote: > Sorry, > I am trying to use Ant to deploy to our production servers through SSH. In > brief I want to be able to deploy the files over SSH to the server from a > task in the Ant build.xml file. I am using a Win2K client and I have SSH > Secure Shell c

Re: target as a property

2001-07-26 Thread Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
I will maintain a calm, friendly, debate style tone... Pete, I am really trying to understand why figuring out all the possible ways I might use a feature, then determining if you aren't a fan any of the possible uses, is the right way to determine if a feature should be in ant. I'm sure nearly

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Filip Cruz
Sorry, I am trying to use Ant to deploy to our production servers through SSH. In brief I want to be able to deploy the files over SSH to the server from a task in the Ant build.xml file. I am using a Win2K client and I have SSH Secure Shell client and SecureCRT. Is there a way to deploy over

Re: Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:05, Filip Cruz wrote: > Hi all, > Ant is great, but I can't seem to get it to work with SSH for deploying to > our production servers. Has anybody gotten this to work?? well what do you mean "got it to work". You need to be a little more specific if you want anyone to help

Using Ant with SSH

2001-07-26 Thread Filip Cruz
Hi all, Ant is great, but I can't seem to get it to work with SSH for deploying to our production servers. Has anybody gotten this to work??

RE: task support for JOnAS?

2001-07-26 Thread ANDERSON,JIM (HP-FtCollins,ex1)
Shankar I've started an attempt, but I haven't had much time of late to work on it.  It will probably be another week or two before I get around to getting something functional.  I haven't really looked very hard for an existing one, as I am using this as a learning opportunity...   jim an

RE: Can I convert a classpath element to a property?

2001-07-26 Thread Natalia Bello
Title: Can I convert a classpath element to a property? Yes,i think this is what you are asking for?             Hope it works for you, Natalia -Original Message-From: O'Hara, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 26 July 2001 16:46To: Ant User Mailing List (E

RE: Can I convert a classpath element to a property?

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Vandenberk
Hi Patrick, the following seems to do the trick: FYI, Peter -Original Message- From: O'Hara, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:46 PM To: Ant User Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: Can I convert a classpath element to a property? I have created a co

Can I convert a classpath element to a property?

2001-07-26 Thread O'Hara, Patrick
Title: Can I convert a classpath element to a property? I have created a common classpath that I refer to via a reference.  This works everywhere except ddcreator which does not take a reference.  I am wondering if I can convert the classpath to a property? Patrick O'Hara Workscape, Inc N17 W

RE: Jxunit and Ant

2001-07-26 Thread Natalia Bello
Title: RE: Jxunit and Ant Thanks Stephan! i didnt have the jaxp.jar neither the parser.jar in the ANT_HOME/lib.But finally i have copied all the jar files in the jxunit\jar directory to ANT_HOME/lib and i have used the junit task. I works!!! Natalia -Original Message- From: Stefan

Re: Jxunit and Ant

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Natalia Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > and i get > > java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking > org/xml/sax/XMLReader class at You have two different XML parsers in your classpath, one from ANT_HOME/lib

Jxunit and Ant

2001-07-26 Thread Natalia Bello
Title: Jxunit and Ant Hi, has anyone tried to execute a Jxunit test from ant. I have tried from the junit task and from the java task but i didnt success... Any ideas?? Thanks in advance, Here is an overview of what i have tried: My target is        

Re: v1.4 ?

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Peter FLYNN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any plans to release 1.4 anytime soon? (or even go to > beta) Yep, a release plan has been proposed by Conor yesterday and looks kind of approved to me, see Stefan

RE: tarfileset not working: solved

2001-07-26 Thread Helliwell, Matthew
After a bit of hacking about with the source code, the problem turns out to be nothing more than that it can't find release.ksh. Doh. In my defence, the file was present and but with a capital 'R' at the front and I'm on NT so I was convinced could see the file! -- Matt -Original Message

v1.4 ?

2001-07-26 Thread Peter . FLYNN
Is there any plans to release 1.4 anytime soon? (or even go to beta) It seems very stable. Regards, Peter Flynn This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient

Re: Regexp mapper in Apply task

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jamie Echlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guess I could make a marker file when each one is compiled or > something would that be the way to go? Could work, yes. Stefan

RE: Regexp mapper in Apply task

2001-07-26 Thread Jamie . Echlin
Guess I could make a marker file when each one is compiled or something would that be the way to go? cheers, jamie > -Original Message- > From: bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 July 2001 10:26 > To: ant-user > Cc: bodewig > Subject: Re: Regexp mapper in Apply task > > >

Re: Regexp mapper in Apply task

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jamie Echlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my question is about the mapper element, do I have to make it map > the source to an exact destination class name (which I can't predict > from the source file name), or can it be bished No, ATM mappers will work on complete filen

Regexp mapper in Apply task

2001-07-26 Thread Jamie . Echlin
Hi, > Could you please try a recent nightly build to see whether it makes > any difference? I don't dare at the moment Stefan, we have customised it too heavily. I managed to progress though by using the absolute path and not a symlink. The next problem is that I need a regexp that will map fro

JUnitReport in current nightly build

2001-07-26 Thread Ingmar Stein
Hi all, somehow the XMLResultFormatter.class is missing in the optional.jar of the current nightly build. Why is it not included? Ingmar

Re: jar and preverify tasks

2001-07-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Konrad Hernblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wondering if it is possible to specify in the jar task not to > create the manifest file at all. it appears that one is always > created by default. If you don't want a manifest file, use the task. > also, is or will there

jar and preverify tasks

2001-07-26 Thread Konrad Hernblad
just wondering if it is possible to specify in the jar task not to create the manifest file at all. it appears that one is always created by default. also, is or will there be a task available for preverify (the tool included with j2me)? i am a docomo i-mode/i-appli developer in tokyo and the

tarfileset not working

2001-07-26 Thread Helliwell, Matthew
Like a few other people I've had problems with the tarfileset and so downloaded the latest Tar.java to try that. I've still got a problem. Using this build file Gives this output $ ant -verbose -Dtarget.dir=c:/cygwin/home/helliwm/release -buildfile te

RE: Forcing a (Windoze) Reboot from Ant?

2001-07-26 Thread Stephane Bailliez
Butch, This is definitely not the Ant goal to do a reboot, otherwise we will soon have to change Ant to make coffee and pancakes. Ant allows you to execute external processes, take advantage of this. Do an with this process. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml As an add

RE: NoClassDefFoundError: Files\InterBase

2001-07-26 Thread SimonRichardson2
Thanks Conor, that appears to have done the trick. -Original Message- From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 14:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NoClassDefFoundError: Files\InterBase Try a recent nightly build (or just grab ant.bat from it or from CVS).

RE: Strange java/fork behavior with xalan

2001-07-26 Thread Stephane Bailliez
Eric, 1) Pay attention when you are forking a java task that requires an url as a parameter. The urls always have to be absolute because you never know where will be located your vm and the resolution of a relative path may depends on the strategy of you java app. Best thing is to always use the