Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-01 Thread Gary M
Hi I'm new to ant and need to have M$ cab file support for a project. I noticed cab.java is still in the source tree and the cab.class is still building, however, the cab .jar is not. I'm assuming cab support was removed due to M$ EOL their Cabinet SDK and cabarc.exe utility cab.java requires.

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 Gary M
Thanks for these links.. When I was mentioning build.xml best practices, I was referring to ant's build.xml used to build ant. After reviewing the docs, I'm fairly sure I have a handle on it. For the cab.java file, I'll test for MakeCab then cabarc. If neither are found, fail with a meaningful er

Re: Returning CAB file support to ANT

2016-04-02 Thread Gary M
commonest cause is a missing JAR. On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > 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!

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 mi