I've seen a few postings regarding the uglyness of multiline echoing;
perhaps an interim (or complete) solution would be to augment the echo task
with either a boolean "trim" attribute to decide whether to trim each line
or not:
<target name="makeini">
<echo file="${build.classes}\default.ini" trim="on">
Name=Ant
Version=1.0
Help-Item=Ant Help,doc/VAJAntTool.html
Menu-Items=Ant
Build,org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide.VAJAntTool,-P;
</echo>
</target>
or a more xml like approach:
<target name="makeini">
<echo file="${build.classes}\default.ini" trim="on">
<line>Name=Ant</line>
<line>Version=1.0</line>
<line>Help-Item=Ant Help,doc/VAJAntTool.html</line>
<line>Menu-Items=Ant</line>
<line>Build,org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide.VAJAntTool,-P;</line>
</echo>
</target>
any thoughts??
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siberski, Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 12 March 2001 11:29
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Feature Request for Ant 2: Line breaks in attribute values
>
>
> It should be possible to specify line breaks
> in attribute values. I needed that for the echo task,
> and at the moment try to work around that this way:
>
> <target name="makeini">
> <echo file="${build.classes}\default.ini">
> Name=Ant
> Version=1.0
> Help-Item=Ant Help,doc/VAJAntTool.html
> Menu-Items=Ant
> Build,org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide.VAJAntTool,-P;
> </echo>
> </target>
>
> First, this looks ugly, because I can't indent correctly.
> Second, it seems to be unspecified which
> kind of line break the echo task produces (\n or \r\n).
>
> What I would like to see is
>
> <target name="makeini">
> <echo file="${build.classes}\default.ini">
> "Name=Ant\n"
> "Version=1.0\n"
> "Help-Item=Ant Help,doc/VAJAntTool.html\n"
> "Menu-Items=Ant
> Build,org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide.VAJAntTool,-P;"
> </echo>
> </target>
>
> or something similar (I'm not familiar enough with
> XML to make a well-founded proposal).
>
> IIRC there was another user requesting a similar feature
> to add multi line comments when checking in sources,
> so that feature should not be echo task specific.
>
> Wolf
>
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