----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:57 PM Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant Main.java Diagnostics.java
> Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Well, yeah, but how often has that not been used by users and we field > > questions that have the answer "put junit.jar in ANT_HOME/lib and call us in > > the morning"? :) > > > > The typical situation is that there will be many tasks which cannot be > used. I certainly would not want to get warnings about star team tasks > being unavailable. > maybe, but we could be smarter about saying these things 1. look through the taskdef list to see if the task is listed 2. if aint, give the 'unknown, misspelling or later version' text 3. if it is, do class.forname() 4. if that wont work, redirect the user to a page on apache specifically related to that task jakarta.apache.org/ant/missing&taskname=junit Actually that would be best of all; run it server side. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
