Yes, that is what another ant user just suggested and it does work really well. Every time I "up the ante", ant is right there. (sorry, it got the better of me ;-)
Thanks! lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: RE: updating jar files with each build > I use the <delete> task to remove the file when it should be overwritten. Although, I do think it would be nice if <jar> had and overwrite="yes" attribute. > > <delete file="classes.jar" /> > <jar destfile="classes.jar"> > ... > </jar> > > Hope that helps, > /mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lisa Knee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:35 PM > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: Re: updating jar files with each build > > > > > > Actually, it doesn't rewrite anything, unless I delete the > > jar file each > > time - painfully, manually. Thus my inquiry as to a better way, which > > doesn't seem to exist ... so thanks anyways! > > > > lisa > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:18 PM > > Subject: RE: updating jar files with each build > > > > > > > As I recall, update=true means that the files in the > > jar/zip file are > > > updated rather than the whole file being rewritten. > > > > > > So you probably don't want to used update=true > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Lisa Knee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:54 a.m. > > > > To: Ant Users List > > > > Subject: updating jar files with each build > > > > > > > > I'm new to Ant and loving it but have one simple > > question: if a jar > > > file > > > > is > > > > being created and you want it to overwrite the old one > > with each new > > > > compile, how do you set up your build.xml file for that? I tried > > > > update="true" in the <jar> tag, but to no avail. > > > > > > > > thanks! > > > > > > > > lisa > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
