Hi Christoph, I don't want anything fancy or graphical or complicated at all. When I'm working with ant, I spend a lot of my time editing build.xml. Now, I can be in any directory when I want to edit it, so sometimes I do this:
vi ../../../../../build.xml and sometimes I do vi ../../build.xml. Now, I know I could do something like vi $BUILD_HOME/build.xml or I could even write a shell alias to do what I want. But it just seemed more generally useful if I could do something like ant -edit and that would locate the build.xml file and launch vi for me to edit it. Could do it with a very simple piece of scripting in the ant shell script, or you could do it in the java code itself. I am not talking about IDEs or anything like that, just a convenient little option that I would find personally useful. Cheers, Mike. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Wilhelms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 April 2001 03:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Feature suggestion > > > Hi! > > Can you please tell me, if I understood correctly what you want! > > Do you want to run commandline Ant everywhere, poping up a FileSelector if > "build.xml" cant be found? If so, then you shouldt start Ant, but > Antidote, > for it is capable of it ATM! > > Otherwise, If you want to modify the projectdefinition while ant > is started > Antidote is the rightone, too - even there is still a litte bit missing... > but we are workig on it (mostly Sim and Nick :-))! > > Greetigs, > Chris > > > Mike, > > > > IMHO, I do not see that as a core ant feature. It is really > something that > > Antidote will offer and is more appropriate there where you > will have an > > "integrated" environment. > > > > Conor > > > > > How about adding a feature to ant that allows editing of the build.xml > > file: > > > > > > "ant edit" locates the build.xml file and kicks off an editor using a > > > specified command line. Saves having to go looking for the build.xml > > file > > > everytime you want to edit it. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Mike. > >
