Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-03 Thread Gary M
I'm on Ant 1.9.6.. I'll get to it in a few days.. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2016-04-03, Gary M wrote: > > > I thought cab was removed due to this error message.. The "not found" > > message is a bit misleading. > > > Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plu

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-03 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-04-03, Gary M wrote: > I thought cab was removed due to this error message.. The "not found" > message is a bit misleading. > Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.3:run > (build.cab) on project xxx: An Ant BuildException has occured: Problem: > failed

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Gary M
Thanks Stefan.. I thought cab was removed due to this error message.. The "not found" message is a bit misleading. Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.3:run (build.cab) on project xxx: An Ant BuildException has occured: Problem: failed to create task or type

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-04-03, Gary M wrote: > For the cab.java file, I'll test for MakeCab then cabarc. If neither are > found, fail with a meaningful error message. Sounds good! > I'm shooting for non-Ivy at the moment based on immediate needs. Since you're changes haven't got any dependencies other than Jav

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-04-02, Gary M wrote: > To clarify my post to the list, cab support is already built into ant. > However the optional jar is not built, it has been remove from the > build.xml. This is a misunderstanding. We've split up the old ant-optional.jar long ago and the tasks that don't require any

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Gary M
th a meaningful error message. I'm shooting for non-Ivy at the moment based on immediate needs. On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Martin Gainty wrote: > > > > > > Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:27:36 -0600 > > Subject: Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT > > From: ga..

RE: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Martin Gainty
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:27:36 -0600 > Subject: Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT > From: ga...@oedata.com > To: dev@ant.apache.org > > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for the warm welcome. > > Thanks for the link to the developer's page. > > To cl

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Gary M
Hi everyone, Thank you for the warm welcome. Thanks for the link to the developer's page. To clarify my post to the list, cab support is already built into ant. However the optional jar is not built, it has been remove from the build.xml. I want to re-factor cab.java to support M$ new cab file

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-04-02, Martin Gainty wrote: > one option is to re-factor Cab.java into a Ant Taskdef Cab.java already *is* a task that ships with Ant. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional comma

RE: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Martin Gainty
one option is to re-factor Cab.java into a Ant Taskdef https://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html give a shout if you need any help creating Taskdef for Cab v/r Martin __ > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:06:41 -0600 > Subject: Returning CAB file support t

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi Gary welcome! On 2016-04-02, Gary M wrote: > I noticed cab.java is still in the source tree and the cab.class is still > building, however, the cab .jar is not. It should be inside ant.jar $ unzip -l build/lib/ant.jar | fgrep Cab 8781 2016-03-29 14:42 org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/