Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-10 Thread Dale Anson
PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:41 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > Gus Heck wrote: > > >>Im wondering if part of what is happening is a migration of what people >>need from a build tool... > > > H

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-10 Thread Samuel Gabriel
no matter what can have this feature which is absolutely helpful. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:41 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution Gus Heck wrote: > Im wondering if part

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Woehr
Steve Loughran wrote: > > > Yes. As I said two years ago on this list, Ant (like m4, like make) is sort > > of a mini-Prolog, > > and Prolog *changed*. Like Edmund Burke's famous advice to King George III > > on the Stamp > > which was? "That which one has a right to do, it is not always conven

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Loughran
Jack Woehr wrote: Gus Heck wrote: Im wondering if part of what is happening is a migration of what people need from a build tool... Hi Gus ... I think what's happening is that people are building larger projects than most people who develop for Apache Ant had dealt with early in Ant history. I'm

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Woehr
Gus Heck wrote: > Im wondering if part of what is happening is a migration of what people > need from a build tool... Hi Gus ... I think what's happening is that people are building larger projects than most people who develop for Apache Ant had dealt with early in Ant history. I'm working on t

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Gus Heck
Reading this thread I am beginning to think that there is a fundamental problem on the road ahead for ant. If I understand correctly, one of the founding Ideas of Ant was that builds were something that should be described, not programed. Since I have joined this list about 1.5 years ago, I hav

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Emmanuel Feller
- Message d'origine - De : "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé : jeudi 9 octobre 2003 15:30 Objet : RE: failonerror; general solution >Very interesting point of view. thanks ;))

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > I am not saying that everyone should redesign wheel because > ant is not script ... > I was like you tired of the scripting tabu, but i review my > opinion when i had to do my first very complex build file.

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Emmanuel Feller
view if we provide the scripting features. Only my opinion, Emmanuel - Message d'origine - De : "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé : jeudi 9 octobre 2003 14:03 Objet : RE: failonerror; gene

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
s executed. ANT is not a procedural language, that I agree, but it is a script. > -Original Message- > From: Emmanuel Feller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 October 2003 12:26 > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > &

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Emmanuel Feller
- De : "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé : jeudi 9 octobre 2003 12:59 Objet : RE: failonerror; general solution To tell you the truth I think that the 5(?) tasks of antcontrib are just a necesity if yo

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
is why I think we should ask for permission to ship it as an antlib. It will serve as an example of the power of the framework. > -Original Message- > From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 October 2003 19:58 > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failo

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-08 Thread Gus Heck
I'm not as eager to see the tasks in Ant proper as others, that's why I haven't taken any initiative here (in Apache speak, that's the difference between my +0 and the +1s that have been cast by others). Are we talking about all ant-contrib tasks or just try/catch? I thought just try/catch...

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-08 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
6:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Dale Anson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The source for ant-contrib's has your name as > the author, > > so "them" is "you"??! >

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Matt Benson
gt; > have. > > > > > > Jose Alberto > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Stefan Bodewig > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 07 October 2003 07:56 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Dale Anson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The source for ant-contrib's has your name as the author, > so "them" is "you"??! "I" am part of "them" and have already agreed to sign all papers that are needed (if that is needed at all, given I've already signed a couple of other p

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Dale Anson
Stefan, The source for ant-contrib's has your name as the author, so "them" is "you"??! Dale Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Gus Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sequential has the advantage of not needing to get the ant-contrib folks to give it to us (which I seem to remember was the

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread peter reilly
; > > > I think ANTCONTRIB is one of the best candidates for > > antlib that we > > have. > > > > Jose Alberto > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 07 October 2003 07

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Matt Benson
Sent: 07 October 2003 07:56 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > > > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Gus Heck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sequential has the advantage of not needing to > get the

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 October 2003 07:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Gus Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sequential has the

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-07 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Gus Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sequential has the advantage of not needing to get the ant-contrib > folks to give it to us (which I seem to remember was the sticking > point b4) AFAIR the "sticking point" has been that we haven't asked them yet 8-) Stefan ---

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-06 Thread Gus Heck
Dominique Devienne wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:23 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution Dale Anson wrote: What's the difference in use case between this and the try/

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-06 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
7:38 > To: 'Ant Developers List' > Subject: RE: failonerror; general solution > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:23 AM > > To: Ant Developers List > > Subject

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-06 Thread peter reilly
Of course.. Peter On Monday 06 October 2003 08:24, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This whould make the seqential task actually useful.. > > ... outside of 8-) > > Stefan > > ---

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, peter reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This whould make the seqential task actually useful.. ... outside of 8-) Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-06 Thread Dale Anson
Hi Peter, Yes, I can do that. I just read through the antlib docs after I saw your message (I hadn't really looked at them before), that's some nice stuff! Dale peter reilly wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 16:34, Dale Anson wrote: FYI, I'll be posting a new antelope distribution to sourceforge t

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:23 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > Dale Anson wrote: > > What's the difference in use case between thi

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Loughran
Dale Anson wrote: What's the difference in use case between this and the try/catch from ant-contrib or antelope? I'd suggest grabbing the try/catch from either, and making it a core task. Just judging from the e-mail that I get, the try/catch task in antelope is one of the main reasons people do

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Benson
On controversy: A lot of your stuff, Dale, particularly the various call styles, looks very nice. Another extension I like is ant-contrib's foreach task. However, some companies will only approve a relatively limited number of technologies for use within the enterprise. The endeavor of getting

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread peter reilly
On Friday 03 October 2003 16:34, Dale Anson wrote: > > FYI, I'll be posting a new antelope distribution to sourceforge this > weekend that has been updated for Ant 1.6. > > Dale Hi, Dale, Would you be able to put in an antlib descriptor in the new antelope distribution. make a file called antlib

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dale Anson
Hmm... I didn't know there was controversy! Does this fall into the 'Ant is not a scripting language' category? As a java developer, the try/catch seems more natural to me. I have spent some time working in a CM team, and realize that not everyone has a development background. The try/catch con

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: Dale Anson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What's the difference in use case between this and the try/catch from > ant-contrib or antelope? I'd say that it follows an existing pattern in Ant, and is less controversial maybe!? I'll just say I prefer an enhanced

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > peter reilly wrote: > > > On Friday 03 October 2003 15:54, Dominique Devienne wrote: > > > ... > >>Not a bad idea! I would just make that: > >> > >> > >> >

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dale Anson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyï: vendredi 3 octobre 2003 16:38 Objet : failonerror; general solution There are a few new entries in bugzilla regarding handling of BuildExceptions. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23540 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23581 Also,

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
peter reilly wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 15:54, Dominique Devienne wrote: ... Not a bad idea! I would just make that: No new task, but simply a very useful extension to an existing task container. --DD This whould make the seqential task actually useful.. :-))) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Here is a task that does some like that: > > package task; > > import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential; > > > public class NoFail extends Sequential { > private String failureProperty; > public void

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread peter reilly
On Friday 03 October 2003 15:54, Dominique Devienne wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jan Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > What about creating a container task instead. > > Like: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That way all tasks automatically have somethin

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread peter reilly
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ï: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Envoyï: vendredi 3 octobre 2003 16:38 > Objet : failonerror; general solution > > > There are a few new entries in bugzilla regarding handling > > of > > > BuildExceptions. > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugz

RE: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What about creating a container task instead. > Like: > > > > > > > > That way all tasks automatically have something like "failonerror" + you > actually know if the part failed and can take an appr

Re: failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Emmanuel Feller
I agree, it is a good option in my mind. +1 :) Emmanuel - Message d'origine - De : "Jan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé : vendredi 3 octobre 2003 16:38 Objet : failonerror; general solution > There are a few new entries in

failonerror; general solution

2003-10-03 Thread Jan Schroeder
There are a few new entries in bugzilla regarding handling of BuildExceptions. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23540 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23581 Also, some tasks already implement some "failonerror" attribute (e.g. ). What about creating a con