Here Here, I consider myself a background newbie user of Ant. Not overly active in the forums, and only asking questions for which I have neither the time or the knowledge to resolve myself. I have made the following observations from monitoring the Ant forum.
High volume of queries High volume of responses High quality of responses Friendly attitude to newbies Non judgmental attitude to skilled practitioners. Effort where effort belongs Personally I believe Ant will only continue to grow and succeed. Well done on the award all. I see no point in people bashing it has no place in forums. Ric. -----Original Message----- From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 March 2002 11:18 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: reg: cvs / clearcase task --- stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 March 2002 22:25 pm, Diane Holt wrote: > > But 'cvs log' does give you a return code of 1. And 'cvs diff' > > returns 0 for no diffs, 1 for diffs. So it's all doable using > > currently available Ant tasks. > > Nope. How does the user get the return code for cvs without actually > coding a task with it's one Execute/Commandline objects? He can't get > it via the Cvs task object [...] I didn't say "it's all doable using the Cvs task" -- I said "it's all doable using currently available Ant tasks". The guy wanted to know if there was way to do what he wants to do -- I assume without having to write his own task(s) or modify existing ones -- and, yes, there is. You seem awfully quick to make pronouncements that Ant can't do X unless you start hacking at the code -- and that's just not actually been the case 99.9% of the time. So far, the only thing it couldn't actually do was run <record> in emacs mode -- but only because it was just stubbed off. And that should've been a completely straightforward little thing to implement, but somehow it turned into some big hack-away-at-Ant, which I still don't think it needed to be. > 'cvs --help diff' also returns 1, Yeah, so? -- who said anything about running 'cvs --help diff'?? The ant-user list is a place where people can ask for solutions to their problems, and hopefully we can offer them some. Constantly poohpoohing those proffered solutions that use what's already available seems awfully counterproductive -- especially since it's more often than not misinformation to say you can't do this or that, since in fact you can. I don't always put the solution together in actual Ant format (and I didn't this time because, frankly, I had a bit too much brew and Thirsty Bear last night to feel like doing much of anything today :), but trust me on this, if I say there's a way to do it, it means I have actually thought of how -- I just haven't necessarily typed it all out. Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ******************************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed and may not be divulged to any third party without the express permission of the originator. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thales Research Ltd. Following the acquisition of Racal Electronics plc by Thomson-CSF, please note that our new name is Thales Research Ltd. For more information regarding the Thales Group (formerly Thomson-CSF) please see our website www.Thalesgroup.com ******************************************************************************* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
