init

2002-01-09 Thread Joe Cheng
Is there something wrong with this: target name=init ... set some properties ... /target target name=compile depends=init ... some tasks ... /target as opposed to doing the init tasks outside of any target, which is what most examples seem to do? I moved all that stuff to an init

RE: Best Practices (was Re: Init)

2002-01-09 Thread Joe Cheng
Best Practices page/site would be great. Also repository for user-contributed tasks... I'd be willing to help... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

user prompt task

2002-01-08 Thread Joe Cheng
After reading this: Extending Ant to support interactive builds http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-antbuild/ I wrote a little task that does the same thing (prompt the user for input and put it in a property), but pops up a Swing-based dialog box instead of a text prompt.

RE: pushd and popd

2001-12-13 Thread Joe Cheng
Don't know if this will help you, but are you aware that you can use to string together commands onto one line... this is at least true on Windows 2000, not sure about NT. From the command reference: The ampersand () separates multiple commands on one command line. The parentheses groups