> >>unless java does the VMS filespec generation
> >>
> >
> >
> > That's another possibility. But in that case the VMS
> specific code wouldn't
> > only be inside oat.ant.taskdefs.Execute, but also in <exec>
> and <arg>.
> > Worse yet, this translation isn't really trivial either.
> The JVM has to do
> > it somewhere, but that function isn't exposed for reuse inside Java.
>
> Is its location known for reflection abuse? Otherwise we
> reimplement it
> in FileUtils...the latter gives one the option of generating
> VMS paths
> in ant for other purposes.
>
Nothing available for reflection either. It seeems to be entirely handled
by the VM implementation.
> I am much more strongly in favour of having the conversion
> code in java
> rather than in some string we pump out to a COM file. At the
> very least,
> it lets us have a junit test to verify the conversion works.
>
>
Sounds reasonable. I'll take a look at FileUtils.
A related issue: If a VMS application takes several files (or something
else) as arguments, the arguments are separated by comma. So for instance
the SEARCH application has the following synopsis:
SEARCH filespec[,...] search-string[,...]
It will actually search all the files for all specified strings. Not that
this particular application matters, but the question is whether <apply>
should know to separate by comma instead of space on VMS. Then again, tools
from the Unix/Windows world, like javac, still expect the file arguments to
be separated by space...
> >
> >
> >>>3. would be about to make Ant VMS compatible in general.
> >>
> >>could you re-use the perl scripts?
> >>
> >
> >
> > You're talking about runant.pl to invoke Ant, right? Yes,
> that or also
> > runant.py should work on VMS. I noted that the CVS HEAD of
> those still use
> > oat.ant.Main instead of oat.ant.launch.Launcher, as ant.bat
> and ant do.
>
> time for an update. Ant on netware uses the perl script BTW, and with
> the fewer lauchers we have, the easier it is to support.
>
OK. People could also just run 'java -Dant.home=... org.apache...' if they
haven't Perl or Python installed.
> >
> > But there's no build.pl and bootstrap.pl, but I supose it's
> not really
> > necessary to be able to build Ant on VMS.
>
> Not unless you want to run the nightly gump on VMS...
>
:-) No, it's just now when I want to run the unit tests on VMS. But with a
recent enough binary distribution of Ant I should be able tu run the unit
tests.
--
knut
