Author: jhm
Date: Tue Dec 22 08:21:43 2009
New Revision: 893111
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=893111&view=rev
Log:
- remove double "for example"
- two minor words about command line use
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/targets.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/targets.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/targets.html?rev=893111&r1=893110&r2=893111&view=diff
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/targets.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/targets.html Tue Dec 22 08:21:43 2009
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
desired state during the build process.</p>
<p>Targets can depend on other targets and Ant ensures that these
- other targets have been executed before the current target. For
- example you might have a target for compiling, for example, and a
+ other targets have been executed before the current target. For
+ example you might have a target for compiling and a
target for creating a distributable. You can only build a
distributable when you have compiled first, so the distribute
target <i>depends on</i> the compile target.</p>
@@ -190,14 +190,19 @@
encoding of the XML file. The empty string "" is in this
set, as is comma "," and space " ". Please
avoid using these, as they will not be supported in future Ant
- versions because of all the confusion they cause. IDE support of
+ versions because of all the confusion they cause on command line and IDE.
IDE support of
unusual target names, or any target name containing spaces, varies
with the IDE.</p>
<p>Targets beginning with a hyphen such
as <code>"-restart"</code> are valid, and can be used to
name targets that should not be called directly from the command
- line.</p>
+ line. <br>
+ For Ants main class every option starting with hyphen is an
+ option for Ant itself and not a target. For that reason calling these
+ target from command line is not possible. On the other hand IDEs usually
+ don't use Ants main class as entry point and calling them from the IDE
+ is usually possible.</p>
<h1><a name="target-groups">Target-Groups</a></h1>
