I tried the other way, using depends and targets. It is REALLY long, not
succinct, and IMHO can lead to severe maintenance problems in the long run -
therefore, I advocate leaving the available tag just the way it is.
To do what I wanted using depends and targets, it roughly works like this
--- Russ Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried the other way, using depends and targets. It is REALLY long,
not succinct,
Well, the way you did it is a bit more roundabout than you really need.
For example (this one assumes the file is required):
target name=copyFile depends=noFile
- Original Message -
From: Russ Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: newbie - if-then-else task?
I tried the other way, using depends and targets. It is REALLY long, not
succinct, and IMHO can lead to severe maintenance
Hello,
I'm new at Ant and I will describe what I want to do -- followed with how I
hope to do it.
I'm trying to copy files from two sources, a system directory followed by a
local directory. This is prior to a build, and I'm modifying an existing
build file. What I want is to copy a file
You can use available. It doesn't just set a flag -- you can assign
any value to the property it's (potentially) setting, so have the value be
the path to the file it finds, then reference that property in your copy
task.
If you can use a nightly build rather than a release, you can do this more
- if-then-else task?
You can use available. It doesn't just set a flag -- you can assign
any value to the property it's (potentially) setting, so have the value be
the path to the file it finds, then reference that property in your copy
task.
If you can use a nightly build rather than a release, you
Okay - I think I understand. If I have 'dirs.orig' pointing to the global
area, and dirs.local pointing to the local modified area, and want to put
the file into 'dest', I can do the following:
property name=frompath value=${dirs.orig}/foo/
available file=${dirs.local}/foo property=frompath
