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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4025 help attribute on target Summary: help attribute on target Product: Ant Version: 1.1 Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: Core AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] add an attribute to the "target" tag called "help", that will allow a new default target of "ant help" to print out all targets available that have defined with the help attribute. In this way, one can keep the comments for a given target with the target itself, and not in a separate help target, and the comments can be used for both build.xml documentation (instead of <!-- comment -->) and at run time to discover targets defined. For example, <target name="build" help="Compile source files">....</target> <target name="install" help="Install ejbs into weblogic">...</target> and if one were to type: ant help ant would respond: build - Compile source files install - Install ejbs into weblogic This is especially useful if one is using an XML include to share a template. Some of the targets will be defined in the shared template, others will be defined in the build.xml of the directory. In this way, the comments of all targets, both shared and local, will be reported when "ant help" is executed.
