RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]

2002-12-01 Thread Jon Skeet
I've intentionally sensationalized the subject. Don't be offended. Why use Ant for things like telnet, VSS, .NET, looping scripts, etc.? I'm all for Ant as a build tool and tool for general development-related Java stuff like deploying apps or running command line, non-interactive,

Re: Ant for non-java apps

2002-12-01 Thread Jean-Philippe LEBOEUF
Hello, Just to say that the LinuxFromScratch Linux distro is working on a system that uses XML to describe the distribution. Many tools are developed, similar to Ant, to build the distro. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ http://automated.linuxfromscratch.org/ My question is : is there a C/C++

RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]

2002-12-01 Thread Scott Stirling
-Original Message- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] Some people want Ant to do everything (or want to do everything from within Ant), in hopes of achieving portability perfection in a cross-platform world, even at the expense of horrible hacks in custom

RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]

2002-12-01 Thread Scott Stirling
-Original Message- From: Jon Skeet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] In the build procedure at work, due to historical reasons I *only* use Ant for VSS work - simply because it's much better at getting the job done than anything else is, and *much* better than hand labelling lots of

Re: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]

2002-12-01 Thread Erik Hatcher
Scott Stirling wrote: tools out there like Flux. Would that appropriate for scheduling builds either from Ant or around Ant? How do others automate Ant builds in cross-platform environments? Cron on UNIX/AT on WIndows? anthill, cruisecontrol. AT sucks. I haven't tried AntHill, but a

Re: Java Development with Ant examples

2002-12-01 Thread Erik Hatcher
Oh, and I forgot to mention in the first message, the sample data that I included to be indexed is Ant's own documentation. So, knock yourself out with queries like: +title:http -proxy ftp library starteam task and any other valid Lucene query. Erik Erik Hatcher wrote: Hesitantly (because

FilterChains - grep and sed

2002-12-01 Thread Scott Stirling
Seems like sed and grep could be implemented as filterreaders (see http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html). The LineContainsRegExp filterreader is already a solid foundation for grep. A little more implementation and a few params to support flags for inverse matching,

Unknown Source in Stack Trace

2002-12-01 Thread Affan Qureshi
The stack trace I get while running on tomcat shows (Unknown Source) in the place where it should show the line no of the file where the error has occured. My javac task simply compiles my source to the WEB-INF/classes dir. Do i need to generate source files om that path to get the line nos