Given that it's Open Source, seems like it would be easy to fix. Maybe
easier than stripping the comments first, even. ;-) Seems like a nice
thing to contribute back to the project. Of course I haven't looked at
the source code myself, but then I just wrote my first task this
afternoon, and it only took about a half hour, from learning what to do
to compiled-and-working task.
-Ian
On Friday, May 18, 2001, at 01:17 AM, Nik Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm starting to use the 'sql' task to rebuild our database. We use
> mysql and
> I've noticed that the sql task expects either '//' or '--' as comment
> markers. Mysql, unfortunately, uses '#'.
>
> The .sql build file is created by using mysqldump, which inserts all of
> the
> '#' comments. And the sql task then falls over because it can't
> understand
> the line.
>
> I know I could just change the .sql file before running the sql task,
> but
> this doesn't feel right.
>
> Does anyone know of any other ways around this, or whether the sql task
> is
> changing?
>
> thanks,
>
> nik roberts
>
