Oh, stupid me. I didn't realize Dominique is a committer. I think of ANT not only as a cross platform build engine, but a cross platform scripting language. antcontrib provides looping concepts and mutable variables that give me everything I need to do almost anything. It would just be so much more useful to pass in command line arguments. ANT already provides a mechanism to pass in information by specifying -D properties on the command line. Therefore, why is it so different to support the same feature with command line arguments instead?
--- Shawn Castrianni -----Original Message----- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:04 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: calling ant with parameters --- Shawn Castrianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love it too. Can we all vote for this or > can any ANT committer on this mailing list checkin > in this enhancement that Dominique has already > written? > Dominique himself is a committer, so the issue of the adoption of this patch is more political than technical; it's simply a matter of the community deciding this patch is in harmony with the way they would like Ant to function. -Matt > --- > Shawn Castrianni > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:33 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: calling ant with parameters > > Wow! Me likes it :) > > OK I see now... I assumed there would have to be > some delimiter...just > hadn't considered the -- > > Now something like that would be -super- neat to > have... > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Shawn Castrianni wrote: > > > Here is the bugzilla report from Dominique. > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30651 > > > > it answers your questions. > > > > --- > > Shawn Castrianni > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scot P. Floess > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:56 PM > > To: Shawn Castrianni > > Cc: Ant Users List > > Subject: RE: calling ant with parameters > > > > So, I am curious... > > > > How would one deliniate the name of the target(s) > vs the name of params to > > hand in? > > > > Granted the -Dname=value can be somewhat > verbose... > > > > Is this $0 $1 notation somehow more obvious? I > haven't looked at it...so > > just asking "off the cuff." > > > > So, I tend to agree as well...it'd be nice to hand > in params...just trying > > to reconcile in my mind how to express this > cleanly on the command line to > > differentiate between params vs target names... > > > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Shawn Castrianni wrote: > > > >> I would love this feature too. It would allow us > an easy way to launch any java class with > application arguments by having a generic > launchClass target that takes in the name of the > class to launch and any app arguments. > >> > >> Dominique Devienne developed a mechanism for this > with $0, $1, etc.. properties and submitted the > source code to ANT. It is still sitting there as a > request for ANT to checkin but no one voted on it. > >> > >> --- > >> Shawn Castrianni > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Guy Catz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:56 AM > >> To: Ant Users List > >> Subject: calling ant with parameters > >> > >> I would like to set a parameter to a ant. > Something like this from command-line - > >> > >> ANT compile debug > >> ANT compile release > >> > >> or > >> > >> ANT testProducts full > >> ANT testProducts debugOnly > >> > >> the target Compile will "catch" the first > parameter and will act as needed. > >> > >> how can I make this to work? how can I call an > ANT target with parameters? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Guy. > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and privileged information for > the sole use of the intended recipient. 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