Probelm with 'subant' is: it doesnt communicate/contribute to overall build status. subprojects may fail, but the overall process will be successful. Wouldnt it contribute in over all build status.
Thanks, Sathya -----Original Message----- From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:53 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: new task 'ants' required or not. Steve Loughran wrote: > Sathyanarayana V. wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Recently, as part of automating my project builds, I have used >> CruiseControl along with Ant. Surprisingly, I didn't find any task >> to build/compile all the subprojects of a project. My purpose was >> to have the compile time errors of all the subprojects as part of >> automated build report. The 'ant' task will stop building as soon as >> one subproject fails. I tried using java/exec tasks with 'failonerror >> ' attribute as false, but the problem with this approach is that >> build status of subprojects is not available to the main build >> process and resulting Total build successful though subprojects are >> failing in-between. > > > OK > >> >> So, I have written new task called 'ants' and used for my >> automated builds. This task internally uses 'ant' only. What I would >> like to know is: Can I post this task of mine to apache or Is there >> any existing task/workaround available for the above required behavior. > > > Ant 1.6 has '<subant> that wil bulk compile a project ... does this do > what you want or are there changes you'd recommend? Also ant 1.6 has a -keep-going which will continue exectuting targets that do not rely on the task that failed. Peter > >> >> Thanks in advance >> Sathya >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
