[off-topic] position available for ant expert in NYC, USA

2006-01-09 Thread Craeg Strong
Hello: Some of you may remember me as a sometime ant contributor. Well, the project I am working on has need of another Ant expert. If interested, please drop me a line at cstrong at arielpartners dot com thanks, and sorry for the interruption. --Craeg --

Re: PROPOSE: Property Trace Facility For Ant?

2005-11-10 Thread Craeg Strong
Steve Loughran wrote: Actually, I quite like the listener approach. We just need an extended listener; there is no reason the -listener command can't handle both types. The nice thing about a listener is that it lets an IDE do fancy things like list all properties. if we are going to do th

Re: PROPOSE: Property Trace Facility For Ant?

2005-11-09 Thread Craeg Strong
Dominique Devienne wrote: Changing an interface is a no-no of course. So far I think I like #1 best, i.e. adding a few overrides to the log methods in ProjectComponent to support an additional category. I'm not sure we'd need hierarchical categories a la Log4J or java.util.logging. Makes it

Re: PROPOSE: Property Trace Facility For Ant?

2005-11-09 Thread Craeg Strong
Dominique Devienne wrote: So obviously I'm +1 on adding such a facility, but implementing it the way you propose is indeed disruptive. Alternate impls (disclaimer: I'm just thinking aloud here...) might be: 1) Add categories to log messages. You could then change the log statements in property

PROPOSE: Property Trace Facility For Ant?

2005-11-08 Thread Craeg Strong
nges to many files. This is the crux of the issue-- I am discouraged by how many files would have to be changed to implement this capability. Does that make it too "expensive" ? Comments, please! --Craeg Strong - To

Re: Java Development with Ant

2005-07-26 Thread Craeg Strong
> Although it will only interest a small number of developers, i would happily contribute a "ecmascript/javascript with Ant" including JSdoc (similar with javadoc) and JSLint (instead of checkstyle) integration, unit test etc. > Manos Yes, Please! I am involved with a large project that is

PROPOSE:optional nested filelist for available task

2003-05-30 Thread Craeg Strong
Hello: A fellow ant user came to me with the following requirement: perform packaging tasks if and only if the entire set of some small number of known doc files was present. If "available" could specify a filelist, then you could explicitly list a set of files, all of which _must_ be present in

Re: Adding support for XMLCatalog in EjbJar

2003-05-24 Thread Craeg Strong
I don't see anything obviously wrong with your code. My suggestion would be to code up some simple unit tests and start there. Once you find the problem, add a unit test to cover that scenario. One of the more difficult problems I had to work around was the fact that a new SAX parser would be c

ant tutorial

2003-04-16 Thread Craeg Strong
This tutorial is incredibly valuable, IMO. I would love to see this checked into CVS and given a permanent home on the ant website, kind of like ant in anger... 2c, --Craeg > > The "first place" was a very long time ago and there was a lot of history > for > > why Ant is the way it is. You migh