Re: ant tutorial

2003-04-17 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:01 am, Craeg Strong wrote: This tutorial is incredibly valuable, IMO. I would love to see this checked into CVS and given a permanent home on the ant website, kind of like ant in anger... 2c, Thanks for the positive feedback. I am intending to write a series of

Re: ant tutorial

2003-04-17 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:43 am, Gus Heck wrote: I agree. This is really cool. The section labeled Top Level Tasks seems to say that tasks on the top level are run at parse-time. Does this mean that the order of tasks at the top level is the order of execution, or do the old toplevel tasks still

Re: ant tutorial

2003-04-17 Thread Dale Anson
Conor, Thanks for posting the tutorial. It is an excellent explanation of the parts of Ant that are a struggle to figure out from just reading code and api docs. It alsow answered a question that I had posted a bug about -- the extra blank target in Ant 1.6. Not a bug, it's a design feature.

ant tutorial

2003-04-16 Thread Craeg Strong
This tutorial is incredibly valuable, IMO. I would love to see this checked into CVS and given a permanent home on the ant website, kind of like ant in anger... 2c, --Craeg The first place was a very long time ago and there was a lot of history for why Ant is the way it is. You might be

Re: ant tutorial

2003-04-16 Thread Gus Heck
I agree. This is really cool. The section labeled Top Level Tasks seems to say that tasks on the top level are run at parse-time. Does this mean that the order of tasks at the top level is the order of execution, or do the old toplevel tasks still run first? Gus Craeg Strong wrote: This