on 12/13/2000 8:46 AM, "Paul Hammant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have just spent some hours trying to get everything to build > catalina, regexp, ant just so I could build struts. Probably most of > that unnecessarily I am sure, but I am a newbie to jakarta (more > usually found in the Avalon list). > > The <get> built-in task seems to look interesting to solve such > problems, but I think it is going to do the retrieval every time it is > invoked. It would be nice if there were a way of the get being > conditional on 1) a question .... > > "Would you like XLS transform capability? > If yes, then the build process will get > the dependant jar for you" > > ... and 2) what the previous build's answer to the question 1 was. > > E.g. > > <get src="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/xalan1.2.3.zip"; > dest="xalan.jar" > conditional-question="Would you blah blah blah.." > verbose="true" > usetimestamps="true"/> Please see the archives for the recent thread titled: [PROPOSAL] jar distribution system -jon -- Honk if you love peace and quiet.
