Ant 1.5's docs have a better overview document listing tasks within
categories (many thanks to Diane!).
As always, patches to documentation is graciously accepted, or suggestions
on what is needed.
I have started working on an XDoclet-based documentation generator, but its
still unpolished and not ready for Ant 1.5 inclusion. I hope to return to
work on that in a month or so. It's purpose is to generate XML
documentation from Ant's source code, and also possibly merging in example
files for tasks that live outside the source code. For those interested,
its the proposal/xdocs that is is Ant's CVS.
The goal is that the XDoclet stuff would take care of the paths, filesets,
and other datatypes, but where properties and targets get documented is
another story since that is not really something that can be gleaned
directly from Ant's source.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jencks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: I am new user of Ant
> I've been using ant for more than a year, frequently study the
> documentation, and also can't find a list of all elements used in standard
> ant buildfiles with an explanation of their purpose. I think such a list
> or an index to the current docs that is automatically checked to make sure
> it includes every available tag would save me hours on every project I
work
> on.
>
> It's easy to get to some documentation about each task, however I find it
> effectively impossible to find documentation about almost anything else,
> such as paths, filesets, properties, targets, etc. This stuff is mostly
> buried 3 levels deep under misleading top level topics.
>
> I haven't checked the 1.5 docs, just what is on the website.
>
> david jencks
>
> On 2002.05.06 05:26:38 -0400 Erik Hatcher wrote:
> > Obviously you aren't looking in the right place. We spend a great deal
> > of
> > time documenting Ant and doing our best to make it easy to navigate and
> > clear to new users.
> >
> > Try the "Documentation" link at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "H, Sugumaran (CORP, GEITC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:29 AM
> > Subject: I am new user of Ant
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am new to Ant. Where could I get the complete list of Tags that I
> > can
> > > use in the build.xml and purpose of each tags. Obviously Ant
> > documentation
> > > doesnt have this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sugu
> > >
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