> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>>>> "JAF" == Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JAF> 1) add an attribute for <echo> to write to a file. > > Sounds like a reasonable addition. One would probably want to do > ${} replacement on text nested into <echo> then, right? > That is exactly my point. Actually I thought that was already happening, the replacement, am I wrong? > JAF> 2) Add an attribute to the <exec> task to allow the process to > JAF> run in the background, > > Conor has some stuff in his "unfinished works" that would allow any > task to be called in a different thread than the main build > process. I'm not sure whether Ant would keep running while one thread > in the same JVM is waiting on Runtime.exec to finish on all OS's - but > this could probably be the solution. > Connor mentioned this to me. However, I wonder if it will be usefull to have a real fork kind of thing. Using "&" in unix and "start" on windows. Do not know for other OSs.
Jose Alberto > Stefan >
