----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 6:14
PM
Subject: Ant "features"
Hiya Ant developers.
I'm very fond of Ant, it kind of removed my need
to use an IDE. Now I just use a simple java-aware text editor to code
in.
Anyway there are a few "features" in
Ant that I dislike.
1) How come you can't use wildcards in <delete
file=.. ? For instance in my rel dir, I would like to delete all
properties after they have been added to my jar via. <delete
file="*.properties"> ... I feel handicapped without.
2) There's something wrong with the java
compiler. the docs say that only .java files that are newer than the .class
file gets compiled. Well is it clever enough to compare against the .class
files in the deployment directory? Because I don't store my class files with
the java files. Perhaps the reason why, everytime I run ant, ALL my .java
files get compiled, and not just the ones I edited, is that I use packages. I
call the command like this: <javac srcdir="src/client"
destdir="rel/client" /> where each dir has a package called
"com.ramosa.blabla" inside. It's not intelligent enough to figure out which
files needs compiling.
3) build.compiler="modern" doesn't work, even
though I have JDK1.3.0 installed, i miss a verbose output that tells me
exactly what compiler is used, rather than just "classic/modern" since I have
2 or 3 installed.
Other than that, it's a wonderfull tool, keep it
up!
- Jakob
