use tag <fail> : http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/fail.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryali, Ravi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: Does the <project> tag have an equivalent of failOnError attribut e? > > Hi, > > As a part of building our application using ANT, I delete some jars from > directories, then compile my source files, jar them and copy the new JARs to > the same directories. But when my build fails, I want to retain the older > JAR files so that my testing team has at least the old version to test > against. Without using failOnError of <javac> , how can I do that? > > This is my algorithm: > > Step 1: copy the current JARs to a temp folder > > Step 2: Run the current build file to build the application > > Step 3: If step 2 fails, copy back the JARs from temp to original folders. > > So, all I want from my build file (step 2) is a flag depending on which, I > will execute 3. So, just as <javac> has a failOnError attribute, does the > <project> tag also have any such attributes? > > Thank you very much in advance > Ravi > > > > -- > 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]>
