RE: PropertySet use in macro

2004-09-01 Thread Dick, Brian E.
I see your point and I agree. Bad idea. Hey Matt, put on the brakes! :) -Original Message- From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:00 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: PropertySet use in macro > From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

local properties note WAS PropertySet use in macro

2004-09-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that you can do something doesn't mean we > should > be doing it. Whatever you are trying to do you think > needs > such a hack, you'd better consider writing custom > tasks for. That's awfully hardline. :) One thing that did occur to

RE: Split build file

2004-09-01 Thread Daniels, Doug
The problem is the XML entity import, really just copies XML into your build file, so it can only be ANT code snippets, not full ANT build files, so your sub_build.xml should look like this: MyName -Original Message- From: Sadaf_Choudhry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Problem with jcoverage task being called multiple times

2004-09-01 Thread Charles Hudak
I'm seeing another problem with Ant 1.6.2 for a target that previously worked in 1.6.1. I have a test and functest target that I run during a single build (e.g. 'ant clean test functest dist'). The test targets rely on instrumenting the code with jcoverage before the tests run, e.g.:

RE: PropertySet use in macro

2004-09-01 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A target can do it. Why can't a macro? No, a target cannot do it. A target does nothing beside executing the tasks within. Passing properties to sub-processes as properties is natural and is an extensible way to pass in such properties, becaus

Re: User task that sets a property

2004-09-01 Thread Matt Benson
ant-contrib has some tasks that will do this. -Matt --- "Dick, Brian E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some core tasks, notably exec, can set a property > that the calling > target can use. Can I do this with antcall somehow? > > --

RE: Split build file

2004-09-01 Thread Angeshwar Deepak
Hi sadaf, Try this example it works fine for me. u can use the import task. I have a build file from where I am calling a target in another build file(a split), i found this example in apache forrest, where I call the forrest build from my build file. someth

RE: Split build file

2004-09-01 Thread Sadaf_Choudhry
Ok, I tried this.. I have a build.xml %IncludeBuildEnv; ]> &IncludeBuildEnv; myName It refers to a sub_build.xml, which is as below: MyName When I run the first build.xml, I get $ ant Buildfile: build.xml BUILD FAILED file:d:/testinclud