> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff McAffer/OTT/OTI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The brings me to my main question: In doing the Ant > integration there were > we hit small but significant stumbling blocks. The general > theme to the > issues we encountered was difficulty plugging in different > functionality. I figure out that there were problems considering the comments in the code :) > - pattern sets use ' ' (space) in the tokenization. This > just killed our > automated build mechanism. We wanted to be able to create a comma > separated list of files to operate on and then pass this to > some other ant > script. The second ant script happened to want to create a > patternset as > part of a (for example) <copy>. Of course, our file names > have spaces in > the names and this did not work. While this problem is somewhat > superficial, when we tried to supply an implementation of > PatternSet which > did what we wanted we found that it was not very pluggable and it was > nearly impossible. there is also a problem with commas since it is a valid character in a directory name. (I know this is crazy but I remember someone complaining about a failure in JUnit because we were tokenizing a comma separated list of parameters.) > Anyway, my goal here is not to report bugs/problems but to Oh, you should. :-) > figure out the > best way to ensure these sorts of problems get addressed and > we end up with > first class integration of Ant into Eclipse. To this end, > we'd like to > help as much as we can or encourage others to help. I'm soliciting > suggestions as to the best way to do this and fit into your community > model. Maybe you can drop a mail into ant-users for that ? > p.s., If you like the icons we use in Eclipse, I will look into > contributing them to the Ant project. Cool. :-) -- Stephane Bailliez Software Engineer, Paris - France iMediation - http://www.imediation.com Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my company.
