Would you like some help?

--- Frederic Lavigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently downloaded Ant1.1 and look at the TODO list and I notice this
> todo item:
> 
>  "* GUI front end -- examine tasks, add task properties, etc. Also,
>     one button push build of a particular target."
> 
> I like doing UI (see www.L2FProd.com to understand :) ) so I'm currently
> working on AntHill, the GUI for Ant.
> 
> During this time, I encountered some problems.
> 
> 1. Bugs related to sourcepath parameter in javac, javadoc task definitions:
> AFAIK, all paths used in ant must be resolved by project.resolveFile(...).
> But in Javac and Javadoc taskdefs, the srcdir and sourcepath are not
> resolved. This makes the build fails if it started from a random directory.
> I didn't look at all taskdefs, maybe this happens elsewhere (rmic  task?).
> For now, I create 2 tasks MyJavac and MyJavadoc and override the setSrcdir
> and setSourcepath.
> 
> 2. I present task attributes in a tabular form. I would like to see these
> attributes sorted (the most commonly used first).
> The simplest solution will be to sort the setter methods in the code in the
> smarter order.
> 
> 3. I was looking for a DTD or schema for ant. I understand that as we can
> create new taskdefs, we should also provide the corresponding DTD. I didn't
> find any answer in the FAQ.
> 
> 4. Is there a mailing list archive somewhere ?
> 
> 5. AntHill is made with JDK1.2.
> I will try to support JDK1.1/Swing1.1.1 but I rely on some user interface
> library I've done.
> I will need to rewrite some code for JDK1.1 (remove references to
> collections package for example).
> 
> 6. There is no version available yet (I started AntHill on friday).
> I attached a screenshot of the current development version.
> 
> 7. Planned AntHill Features are:
> * create/edit/remove targets, tasks (at least!)
> * new project, new target from templates
> * ide plugin (jbuilder, forte, cafe) ?
> * drag'n drop support
> * automagically update dependencies when a target is renamed
> 
> Comments, Feature Requests, Suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Frederic Lavigne, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> java software at http://www.L2FProd.com
> 
> 

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