Use <import> and not <ant>
Peter
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Andrew n marshall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to define a task in one ant build file, but use it in
> another? For example, I want to have a single build file that contains
> the properties and tasks to download a copy of svnant and define its
> tasks. Then I want to call that ant file's define_svn_task target from
> another file (which works) and call an <svn ../> task, like this:
>
> <ant antfile="svnant.xml" target="define_svn_task"/><!-- which calls
> taskdef -->
> <svn>
> <checkout url="${cpptasks.svn}" destPath="${cpptasks.dir}" />
> </svn>
>
> Thus, I can copy this svnant.xml to several projects and repositories
> without having to edit out project specific details or dig for svnant
> attributes like the download URL or install directory.
>
> When I tried this, the define_svn_task target succeeded, but it "failed
> to create task or type svn" in the next line.
>
> Can someone provide an example of how to do this properly?
>
>
> Anm
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