Re: Creating Ant script to check Cyclic Dependency

2013-06-26 Thread James Belton
I highly recommend maven over Ivy. The documentation is much better, and most third party components are available from the Maven Central repository. There are ant tasks available to allow you to use Maven from ant. On 6/25/13 11:35 PM, "Margs E." wrote: >Hi Mattheui, > >Yes, I just checked my i

Better Diagnostics for Failures

2012-07-30 Thread James Belton
It's been a pet peeve of mine that ant gives so little information when a java class that it's running fails. I hacked my version to print "Java class Error #", which makes it much easier to figure out who broke what, especially in the case where someones code generator silently dies. Since thi

Which versions of ant are maintained?

2012-07-25 Thread James Belton
Hi all: Which versions of ant are being maintained? Are patches accepted to version 1.7.1, or only to 1.8.4? Thanks, Jim