On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:01, Paul Hammant wrote: > Given the whole picture you should strive for a perfect fix :-) I'm > sure the problem is with Ant,
nope - the problem is the build file writer ;) > in that when antcall is invoked all relative pathelements should be > corrected. Impossible to do because there is no way to type values. That is why <property/> supports the location attribute (which resolves to absolute filename) however the user must explicitly use this. > In that world we'd be fine, > but build must work for people who have downloaded source and not got > from CVS. I think perhaps we should lean on ant.properties more and > <echo>warnings</echo> if ant.properties indicated paths are missing. > i.e. Force the builder thru a few iterations of setting up the env, > before a successful build. Sorta sounds like a good idea. Can yoiu expand? -- Cheers, Pete -------------------------------------------------- Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence... -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
