Peter, OK, I stand corrected amd will take you on good faith that Ant 1.4.1 cures previous ills. Does it pass in tools.dir as a -D param?
If it is all the things we need, I vote we remove tools/ and go with an installed Ant 1.4.1 Regards, - Paul H >On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:27, Paul Hammant wrote: > >>>So as soon as you use build.[sh|bat] then the tools.dir is overidden. >>>Hmmmm. Have you considered making it work more like the demo/build.xml >>> >>Demo does not have xdocs working either! >> > >but it would if you did what I suggested ;) > >>>The way I build demos is by cd'ing into apps/demo and then just "ant". >>> >>That's great Peter, but you are an Ant committer too. Some months ago >>we were juggling versions of Ant that were not committed yet. Should we >>use the Ant from ../jakarta-avalon/tools or not. >> > >either should work. The reason we had to wait for 1.4.1 was because of a bug. >We should be able to use 1.4.1 for everything now ... you can correct any >build.xmls that don't work under 1.4.1 ;) > >>I used to have Jesktop apps working like that (30 build scripts). But >>came to the conclusion that you could not get ant working from two >>places in the same directory tree adequately. >> > >You couldn't before 1.4.1 - now you can ;) > >>My feeling is that no amopunt of effort with the current Ant will allow >>Ant invocation at dirA/ and dirA/dirB where build.xml in the former >>delegates to another in the latter. >> > >not sure what you mean but either of the following works in current >cornerstone CVS with released version of ant. > >build.xml --> apps/demo/build.xml --> build.xml >apps/demo/build.xml --> build.xml > >the first occurs if you go >./build.sh demo > >while the second occurs if you go >cd apps/demo >ant > >>True..... But we've completely abandoned our Avalon (and possibly Ant) >>newbies if we do that. It's already amazingly complicated with support >>for Ant in a number of different installed or uninstalled places, and >>Avalon get via two routes (CVS, nighlty download, release download) >> > >Right - we could possibly remove ant from CVS now. We just need to document >the install process (basically adding xalan and junit into ant/lib) and then >we could almost remove the whole tools directory. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
