RE: Integrating Ant commands into IDE's

2001-02-21 Thread Steve Cohen
Title: RE: Integrating Ant commands into IDE's I use Visual Slick Edit. It's quite easy there. Since you get access to the command lines for any build functions as well as for new functions you can create yourself. It would be even easier if I would take the time to make ant the default for

timestamp-conditional exec task

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Cohen
conditionally only when some of the data files have changed? Or is there another ant task I should be using. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports Media 4410 N. Ravenswood Chicago IL 60640 (773)-293-4342 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: timestamp-conditional exec task

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Cohen
. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports Media, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: timestamp-conditional exec

starteam task

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Cohen
, then? - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports Media 4410 N. Ravenswood Chicago IL 60640 (773)-293-4342 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

antcall documentation confusion

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Cohen
even have two project tags in the same buildfile? - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

RE: antcall documentation confusion

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Cohen
Yes, you make sense and confirm that it means what I thought it did. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: antcall documentation confusion On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Steve

RE: antcall documentation confusion

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Cohen
project scope. brian peterson | -Original Message- | From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:51 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: antcall documentation confusion | | | On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Steve Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

StarTeam task

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Cohen
who can tell me how to achieve the control I am looking for? - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Proper use of uptodate (a little off-topic)

2001-12-19 Thread Steve Cohen
I will second Steve's recommendation. We started using ant here as a developer's build tool. As we try to move toward a nightly automated build type of environment, I have found that it is essential to name the various properties and tasks identically, with identical meanings in the individual

jar task question

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Cohen
. This to me is counter-intuitive. I should be able to specify a fileset using either exclude or include syntax and get the same results. Am I doing something wrong. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: jar task question

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Cohen
Yes, that worked. Thanks. Still, it's probably more confusing than it should be. I would think the fileset syntax should do the same thing as the include syntax but it doesn't. And then there is also the option of specifying includes and excludes as attributes. This could all be less

Off topic question?

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Cohen
Here's an annoyance of working with ant on Windows 2000. It's not ant's fault but I wonder if anyone has a workaround: Typically an ant project will have a dist directory into which the distribution is put. It will also have a clean task which will typically have something like delete

RE: Off topic question?

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Cohen
that window open. I usually keep explorer open on the desktop. Or you can keep explorer open one level above the dist folder. BTW, an easy way to reproduce the problem is the type start dist in the same command shell you run ant in. Steve Cohen wrote: Here's an annoyance of working with ant

RE: Off topic question?

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Cohen
Explore. Now you get a two-pane explorer window. You can drill down using the tree in the left pane. This window will not close when you delete the folder. Try and let me know if that works for you. It works for me. Steve Cohen wrote

RE: Setting Environment Variables

2001-12-28 Thread Steve Cohen
Ant properties are generally immutable. Why not call each of your compile tasks with antcall and pass this variable as a param of this antcall? -Original Message- From: Ramasubbu, Hari Sent: Fri 12/28/2001 5:55 PM To: Ant-User@Jakarta. Apache. Org (E-mail) Cc: Subject:

RE: Ant for J#?

2002-01-04 Thread Steve Cohen
What the heck is J#? I'd heard of C# which was Microsoft's attempt to make a java-like language that wasn't java. But what is J#? An attempt to make a java-like language that IS java? Wasn't there just a lawsuit about this? -Original Message- From: Joseph S. Barrera III [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Ant for J#?

2002-01-05 Thread Steve Cohen
I'm with you. Approach 4. To me Approach 1 is a non-starter. There is no reason to compromise either the efficiency or the reliability of the javac task to support this abortion. The maintainers of the original javac task should not have to take on responsibility for maintaining it and the

RE: ant-Junit question

2002-01-25 Thread Steve Cohen
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RE: ant-Junit question

2002-01-25 Thread Steve Cohen
: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:43 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: ant-Junit question See the 'dir' attribute in the Parameters table of the Ant task description in the doc. Diane --- Steve Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not so much that I want to read a file (although, eventually, a file

RE: ant-Junit question

2002-01-25 Thread Steve Cohen
Ah, the light dawns. Even with fork set to yes, you STILL have to have a dir=${basedir} in the junit task. Just setting fork to yes won't change the dir. -Original Message- From: Steve Cohen Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:54 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: ant-Junit question

RE: ant-Junit question

2002-01-26 Thread Steve Cohen
for this that I'm not seeing. -Original Message- From: Steve Cohen Sent: Fri 1/25/2002 5:17 PM To: Ant Users List Cc: Subject:RE: ant-Junit question Ah, the light dawns. Even with fork set to yes, you STILL have to have a dir=${basedir} in the junit task. Just setting

pathconvert - why doesn't this work?

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Cohen
, shouldn't the result be c:\build? - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: pathconvert - why doesn't this work?

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Cohen
: Subject:Re: pathconvert - why doesn't this work? --- Steve Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I doing wrong? (ant 1.5a built about a week ago) Nothing -- it's just that pathconvert is a little woobly. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-userm=100810074614382w=2 You're trying

How to conditionally add params to an antcall

2002-03-07 Thread Steve Cohen
- Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to conditionally add params to an antcall

2002-03-08 Thread Steve Cohen
(sending this on to devel as well, since it is becoming a devel-like issue). Thanks, Diane, you're the best. I guess I'll implement something on these lines, since I do use 1.5. However, unfortunately, I oversimplified the problem. My original problem was hard enough, but this is worse.

RE: new Ant article online

2002-03-10 Thread Steve Cohen
Good article! As usual, when reading something like this, I discovered tricks I didn't know, even though I've contributed optional task code to Ant. One note: you do a nice job differentiating ant from make but I think though, that you miss the key differentiator between ant and IDE build

RE: new Ant article online

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Cohen
Subject: Re: new Ant article online - Original Message - From: Steve Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:57 AM Subject: RE: new Ant article online Very well do I remember a build

RE: Any way to shutdown a build externally?

2002-03-14 Thread Steve Cohen
Kill the java process that's running it? -Original Message- From: Michael Laccetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:24 AM To: Ant List Subject: Any way to shutdown a build externally? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got an automated build

RE: OFFTOPIC! RE: IDEs vs. text editors, was RE: Borland Jbuilder f inally adds ant support (at a price)

2002-05-22 Thread Steve Cohen
I can't resist, either. I'm firmly in the editor camp. I find GUIs ALWAYS get in my way eventually. But I want an editor to have as many GUI features as possible so I can work more efficiently, while still being an editor. I've tried Emacs and finally run away from it screaming. So often I

I thought I understood the jar task

2002-05-31 Thread Steve Cohen
and file exclusion/inclusion, but it appears I don't. Can someone please explain WHY I get the following results: Two ways to specify creation of a jar. I think they should produce the same results but they don't. 1. jar destfile=${dist.dir}/lib/ism/RankAPI.jar

Junit task dir attribute

2002-06-20 Thread Steve Cohen
nothing similar to this. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

gpg and distribution

2002-06-21 Thread Steve Cohen
I downloaded the 1.5 distribution and saw all the information about gpg and keys. I downloaded a version of gpg from GNU for Windows and installed it. I then attempted to follow the step listed and got this response. Can someone tell me if this indicates a problem? E:\ant1.5be:\gnupg\gpg

Too wierd - Property forgetting

2002-08-12 Thread Steve Cohen
, which could cause them? - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Too wierd - Property forgetting

2002-08-13 Thread Steve Cohen
. -Original Message- From: Steve Cohen Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:11 PM To: Ant Users List Cc: David Adams; David Chelimsky Subject: Too wierd - Property forgetting Heck of a thing to find first day back from vacation: A colleague and I are both running the same version of ant, version 1.5Beta3

RE: Too wierd - Property forgetting

2002-08-13 Thread Steve Cohen
do an ant -version to make sure that you are running the same version on both boxes; one looks more like a 1.4 instance to me We did that. That's how we determined we were both on 1.5B3 - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite

RE: Have you ever tried Jython with ANT?

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Cohen
. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alexey Solofnenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:10 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: Have you ever tried Jython with ANT? BSF says it does support

RE: Uncompressing tar.Z files in Ant

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Cohen
Not only is there no support for this in Ant, there's no support for it in Java. the .Z format is proprietary. - Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Ignite Sports, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jin Voon

Printing a path

2003-02-03 Thread Steve Cohen
containing this code via the inheritrefs mechanism. Has anyone previously encountered this? Is it a known bug? --- Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Sportvision Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sportvision.com Please note: As a result of the merger

RE: Printing a path

2003-02-03 Thread Steve Cohen
3, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Steve Cohen wrote: On page 80 of Erik Hatcher Steve Loughran's Java Development with Ant is given a technique for Obtaining a string representation of a path. Good reference, I might add :) But something wrong in what you did produces this output

echo true or false

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Cohen
? --- Steve Cohen Sr. Software Engineer Sportvision Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sportvision.com Please note: As a result of the merger of Ignite Sports and Sportvision, my email address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: echo true or false

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Cohen
.../ If you set the property AGAIN, after the condition, it won't reset the property if it was previously set to true, BUT, it will set it if it is still null. d. -Original Message- From: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:09 PM To: Ant Users List