At 10:08 14/9/00 +1000, you wrote: >At 08:45 13/9/00 +1100, you wrote: >>Diane, I don't want to always be disagreeing with you, but I don't see what >>is the problem with the current output format. I think that when the tasks >>in a target produce some output, it is nice to have some whitespace before >>the next target. Perhaps if there is no output from the tasks, we could skip >>the blank lines. I have made a quick change which produces this output when >>building ant. >> >>Buildfile: build.xml >>prepare: >>check_for_optional_packages: >>compile: >> [copydir] Copying 2 files to F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\classes >> >>jar: >> [jar] Building jar: F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\lib\ant.jar >> >>main: >>javadocs: >> [mkdir] Created dir: F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\javadocs >> [javadoc] Generating Javadoc >> ... >> >> >>Would that meet your needs? > > >how about a --quiet command line option that would produce something like > >-------------------------------- >compile: > [copydir] Copying 2 files to F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\classes > >jar: > [jar] Building jar: F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\lib\ant.jar > >javadocs: > [mkdir] Created dir: F:\Projects\Jakarta\build\ant\javadocs > [javadoc] Generating Javadoc >-------------------------------- > >My main problem with it is that I customarily have about 10-20 targets and >when I do build majority output nothing (during a rebuild) but the output >scrolls of screen and I have to change windows and scroll
grr - damn premature sending of messages :P My main problem with it is that I customarily have about 10-20 targets and when I do build majority output nothing (during a rebuild) but the output scrolls of screen and I have to change windows and scroll in second window which is a PITA :P. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
