Check the manual and ant site. There already is one there, which describes different approaches.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Herman, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: RE: init > This isn't an answer to your question, but I was thinking about starting a > "Best Practices" page, perhaps for the developers to put up on the Ant web > site. I've had the same problems as you, trying to learn the Right way. > > Would people be interested in such a web page? I'll be glad to head off the > effort. Perhaps it could just start as a conversation here on the mailing > list, and I could collect the results in the web page. > > Since these things tend towards holy wars, I'd try to be pretty moderate and > collect the generally accepted practices, and then maybe have a separate > section for more controversial topics. > > Dave Herman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Cheng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:41 PM > > To: 'Ant Users List' > > Subject: init > > > > > > Is there something wrong with this: > > > > <target name="init"> > > ... set some properties ... > > </target> > > > > <target name="compile" depends="init"> > > ... some tasks ... > > </target> > > > > as opposed to doing the init tasks outside of any target, > > which is what most > > examples seem to do? I moved all that stuff to an init > > target because now > > an "available" task needs to be part of it. But someone > > mentioned on this > > list that doing so was a bad thing but didn't elaborate on it... > > > > I've been working with Ant for a while now but I'm no release > > engineer, so > > it's been a struggle trying to figure out what the Ant > > developers consider > > the Right way to do a buildfile. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -jmc > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
