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. -- Cheers, Pete The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. --Jules Feiffer (cartoonist) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
