At 09:02 29/3/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >Just run "ant -projecthelp" and it will tell you. And even more, it >will no only tell you its name, but also what it does (if the >description attribute has been set). And even better, it will tell >you what other targets are there and what to use them for.
You gotta remember there are lazy people out there ;) >Finally I think your URL analogy shows a problem of this approach. >Most users of the www won't even know what a port is, they'd have no >idea that http://some.host/ was the same as http://some.host:80/. exactly ! >So the "pure user", someone who just has to invoke Ant, but not really >fiddle with buildfiles - maybe he's just installing something that >uses Ant as its installation tool - won't know that there is a "magic" >target named main. Again "ant -projecthelp" would be the key, and it >is already there. I was thinking about this more when installing stuff. Under unixes you usually have to go something like make clean; ./configure; make; make install It would be nice if the equivelent was translated into ants ant clean configure main install rather than 4 different invocations. However thats not possible now because the user doesn't know the default target. Then I got to thinking as it is just extra fluff ... Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
