Re: Policies/Suggestions on adding attributes...

2002-02-21 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Erik Hatcher wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael J McGonagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Basically, I want to know if it is "legal" (ie; does Ant just ignore the > > unused attributes) to do the following: > > > >

Re: Policies/Suggestions on adding attributes...

2002-02-21 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Erik Hatcher wrote: > > You're still speaking in riddles, at least to me, but feel free to come back > with more specifics if/when you're ready. :) > > I'm assuming you're speaking of creating custom Ant tasks ("mapped to the > XML file"). Basically, I want to know if it is "legal" (ie; does An

Re: Policies/Suggestions on adding attributes...

2002-02-20 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Can you be more explicit with what you're after? Actually, I have been thinking about this a little bit more and it is probably better for me to just set the properties that I want to add as a within the build file. These are things that are additional project data not r

Policies/Suggestions on adding attributes...

2002-02-20 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Hello all, I was wondering if there is a policy regarding adding attributes to tags in an Ant build.xml file. Basically, I would like to add some attributes for use with my program. I have done some tests and it seems that Ant really doesn't care about the additional attributes. Are there any rea

Re: Is there a difference between...

2002-02-18 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > The second case is equivalent to > > > ant subTarget1 subTarget2 > > which in turn is equivalent to > > > ant subTarget1 > > ant subTarget2 > Thanks, this is exactly the syntax that I was trying to encapsulate. Basically, I am trying to create targets that are the m

Is there a difference between...

2002-02-18 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Hello all, I have been thinking about how to factor out some things in my build file, and as part of this I want to create a third target that call two others. My question is if there is any functional difference between the two following piece of xml... Thanks, Mike --

Re: Using the 'Uptodate' task

2002-02-14 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Diane Holt wrote: Thanks Diane, I think my problem is that I am thinking of these as "variables" and not properties. It is all in how the task interprets the values of what is passed to them, it does not assume they are all "variables" and try to evaluate them. Mike

Re: Using the 'Uptodate' task

2002-02-14 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Michael J McGonagle wrote: > > Michael J McGonagle wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am working with trying get target execution based on the files > > timestamp. According to what I read about 'uptodate', this is what I > > should need.

Re: Using gcc with Ant

2002-02-14 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Michael J. McGonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I have heard remarks made to people who are creating an Ant task for > > 'gcc'? > > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/> Wow!

Re: Using the 'Uptodate' task

2002-02-14 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Michael J McGonagle wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am working with trying get target execution based on the files > timestamp. According to what I read about 'uptodate', this is what I > should need. I moved all of the properties and the 'uptodate' task into

Using the 'Uptodate' task

2002-02-14 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Hello all, I am working with trying get target execution based on the files timestamp. According to what I read about 'uptodate', this is what I should need. Well, I get an error with Ant complaining that: /build.xml:22: Unexpected element "uptodate" from here it dies. I am running version 1.

Using gcc with Ant

2002-02-13 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Hello All, I have heard remarks made to people who are creating an Ant task for 'gcc'? I am also interested in its cousin 'gcj' as well. I would be interested in helping to test these things as I have a need for them myself. Does anyone know who might be involved with this sort of thing? Thanks

Re: test environment variable and if statement

2002-02-05 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Also, just for the record :), properties set from the command-line are not > quite equivalent to properties set from . -D > properties (and now -propertyfile ones) are more(?) immutable. That is quite a large cat to just let out of the bag without explaination, especiall

Re: test environment variable and if statement

2002-02-04 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Diane Holt wrote: > > --- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignore the shell/bat script troll > > > > Ok, from an environment variable: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Better? No , no shell script (well, ok, ant.bat/.sh) , nice > > and simple. > > But you don't r

Re: J#... why? [ off topic ]

2002-01-09 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Emir Alikadic wrote: > Joe, I really envy you: with clients like that, I could finally buy that BMW > Z8 and build that jacuzzi my girlfriend keeps nagging me about. Of course, > I'm not too sure when would my ethics finally kick in, forcing me to tell > these poor suckers what the reality is. >

Re: Ant for J#?

2002-01-08 Thread Michael J McGonagle
"MacDonald, Ian" wrote: > > "Microsnort", "Microshlock", "Microslop", "Microshod", come on Michael, tell > us how you really feel about Microsoft. While I'm open to listening to > anyone's opinion, when I see references such as this, I find it a little > hard to look past their biased views. Wh

Re: Ant for J#?

2002-01-08 Thread Michael J McGonagle
"Hunt, Bryan" wrote: > > If you think that ant should support J# your missing the point. If microsoft > > want to create disruptive technologies it should be at their expense that > support tools be developed. I am sorry that you took my post as supportive of Microshod, but you got me complete

Re: Ant for J#?

2002-01-08 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Darth Darknerd wrote: > > I don't want to be political, but what's the point on working on > abortive standards. It is cumbersome technically to support > alternative java-like languages, and this may take away momentum > for existing java support and future developments. Also, I fail > to see

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-11-21 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Peter Donald wrote: > > Almost all of the jakarta projects use ant in some for or another. It may be > an idea to download the source for one of them and have a look at their build > files. > > Ant itself has a relatively well structured build file (except it is rather > largish for an example)

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-11-21 Thread Michael J McGonagle
James Bullington wrote: > > Ant is the standard build system for BEA Weblogic 6.1. > > One way, if you understand J2EE, is to get a demo copy from BEA and > take a look at the examples. There are lots of examples of build > scripts to choose from. Thanks, James, I downloaded the archive (*.zip

Newbie Questions

2001-11-21 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Hello all, I have been using Ant now for about a week. And after reading about it, I have become convinced that it would be a good solution for my building needs. Basically, I have a project of "unifying" several different code bases (including three different languages [Saol, C, and Java]), as w