Yeah, it looks like Conor had it right. I hadn't remembered that the System.exit() was still called in Main even though oata.launch.Launcher invokes Main.start()... Your approach should work, then. I would say open an enhancement request in Bugzilla...
-Matt --- Aurele Venet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I developed this on the back of ant 1.5, I > used an extended > BuildException, ExitStatusException, which stored an > exit status. I > then modified ant's Main class to catch the Exit > exception if there is > one and exit with the set status. I guess this > should still work by > modifying the new Launcher class (?). > > Matt Benson wrote: > > >While that's essentially a nice idea, the only > thing > ><fail> currently does is throw a BuildException... > how > >do you propose to pass this status all the way out > of > >the JVM, especially when you really can't be sure > >whose main method is the starting point... usu. > >oata.launch.Launcher--which incidentally doesn't > even > >call System.exit() itself... IIRC calling > >System.exit() would be a de-evolution of Ant... > > > >-Matt > > > >--- Aurele Venet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I have changed the <fail/> task so as to be able > to > >>add an optional > >>error status int value returned by ant when and if > >>it exists. Basically > >>it goes like: > >> > >><fail message="" unless="prop1" status="1"/> > >> > >>this allows for easier integration with automated > >>shell scripts that may > >>report various causes for errors or warnings. > Would > >>this be a valuable > >>addition to the main distro? > >> > >>Vrata > >> > >>-- > >> > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > >> Quote: The surest sign that intelligent life > exists > >>elsewhere in the > >> universe is the fact that it has never > tried > >>to contact us. > >> > >> Aurele Vrata Venet > >> ESA/ESAC > >> European Space Astronomy Center > >> P.O. Box 50727, 28080 Madrid - SPAIN > >> Tel: +34 91 81 31 331 > >> Fax: +34 91 81 31 322 > >> Ext: 322 > > >> ; > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > >> > >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We > finish. > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
