Re: SQL task testing and gump

2006-01-19 Thread Ken Gentle
At 06:28 2006-01-19, you wrote: Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Given the recent sql task bugs and realization that the tests are awol, which databases could possibly be supported by Gump for testing? Just look over the project's built by Gump

Re: XmlProperty and property expansion

2005-11-21 Thread Ken Gentle
You're scaring me, Steve - I'm working on a complex build right now that is heavily dependent on this behavior. In a build file fragment: Then in ${lib.dir}/lib-properties.xml: Works like a charm in 1.6.2. Note that "common.lib.dist.dir

RE: [VOTE] macrodef - do attributes as properties or substitution s

2003-11-19 Thread Ken Gentle
Everyone is entitled to your opinion, and everyone else is entitled to their own, wrong opinion. Right, Dominique? ;^) Just to be contrarian (but not really), the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" notation looks weird to me! "@{x}" is familiar enough, although I can't say why at the moment -- oh, yeah, doe

RE: Timestamp attribute processing

2003-09-02 Thread Ken Gentle
otten to) for the CvsChangeLog task. Granted, the exception handler is only two levels deep, but it will take some discipline, education and monitoring to prevent later developers from just throwing their favorite format in the list. I think we're in violent agreement... ;^) -----Ori

Re: Timestamp attribute processing

2003-09-02 Thread Ken Gentle
At 12:56 PM 9/2/2003, you wrote: Steve Cohen wrote: Hmm, that's weaker than I would have expected. If I'd like something a little better, is your recommendation then to add to DateUtils? I guess it is time for a date type. I imagine taking java.util.Calendar as a param would be a nice way to map

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs ExecTa sk.java Execute.java

2003-07-25 Thread Ken Gentle
Take UNIX-like shell variables, soft-links, mount-points and a few other things, munge them into a hierarchical structure and you'll have an approximation of a VMS Logical Name. Basically, if the OS (or system call) gets a path that doesn't correspond to a physical device name, directory and fi

RE: on openvms

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Gentle
On the 8 argument limitation, you could pass *all* the arguments in a single DCL argument, then have the wrapper parse them (DCL has some reasonable tokenizing functions IIRC) I don't recall any restriction on the size of DCL script arguments, but it will documented be in the DCL manual. At 11

Re: on openvms

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Gentle
At 10:45 AM 7/10/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ken Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, if you're willing to introduce a JNI lib for VMS, all the > operations you wish to perform are available through VMS System > Services, Sure - just like many useful Unix oper

RE: on openvms

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Gentle
Guys, if you're willing to introduce a JNI lib for VMS, all the operations you wish to perform are available through VMS System Services, including getting/setting the Logical Names, and, IIRC, launching a DCL interpreter directly, avoiding the need for the DCL wrapper. It's been a while (like