Re: manifest problems

2004-10-04 Thread Conor MacNeill
David TROGDON wrote: I intially started by specifying the manifest file but ANT truncates the lines at exactally 70 characters no matter how I format it and the classpath ends up bad. Any help on how I might clear this up would be appreciated. Read this: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#mangled-manif

CVS task - cvsRsh set to "ssh" - How to skip "ssh_askpass" call?

2004-10-04 Thread ACario
Ants, I have an ANT CVS task with cvsRsh attribute set to "ssh". When running the task, I get this message: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. I have then installed openssh ssh-askpass, and now I get a GTK dialog everytim

Re: Setting javac options in Ant

2004-10-04 Thread James Black
Alex Valentine wrote: Thanks so much, the option source="1.4" worked like a charm. There is one more compilier option I would like to do but I'm having trouble finding the correct syntax. I want to display all compilier warnings by doing java -Xlint but how would I add this option in my build file?

Re: Setting javac options in Ant

2004-10-04 Thread Alex Valentine
Thanks so much, the option source="1.4" worked like a charm. There is one more compilier option I would like to do but I'm having trouble finding the correct syntax. I want to display all compilier warnings by doing java -Xlint but how would I add this option in my build file? I apologize for the

Re: Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Matt Benson
As a matter of curiosity, whenever a nested element gets added to , a builtin solution will exist to the given problem. My personal workaround would use ant-contrib's and with and ... -Matt --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Richard Russell > <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Richard Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run into these issues so regularly that I cannot help but assume > that I am simply not 'thinking in Ant', and am therefore fighting > against its design rather than working with it. Sounds like it. One of the major points seems

Re: Setting javac options in Ant

2004-10-04 Thread James Black
Alex Valentine wrote: Just a quick questions for you folks, recently I tried out java 1.5.0 but I was having trouble building some libs for one of my apps. Becuase the lib I was trying to compile used some old classes, I needed to add the "-source 1.4" modifier to javac. How would I would I add thi

manifest problems

2004-10-04 Thread David TROGDON
Following is the "jar" target in my build file

Setting javac options in Ant

2004-10-04 Thread Alex Valentine
Just a quick questions for you folks, recently I tried out java 1.5.0 but I was having trouble building some libs for one of my apps. Becuase the lib I was trying to compile used some old classes, I needed to add the "-source 1.4" modifier to javac. How would I would I add this to my compile task?

RE: how do i append text in a file ?

2004-10-04 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
why don't you use ${line.separator}? -Original Message- From: Markus Innerebner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do i append text in a file ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello, i want to appen text s

AW: how do i append text in a file ?

2004-10-04 Thread Jan . Materne
> i want to appen text starting with a new line? > Is there something like > a line separator "\n"? ${line.separator} Jan

how do i append text in a file ?

2004-10-04 Thread Markus Innerebner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello, i want to appen text starting with a new line? Is there something like a line separator "\n"? actually i am trying it in that way but it doesn't work: ~ SELECT 'DROP TABLE '||table_name||' CASCADE CONSTRAINTS;' FROM user_tables; SELECT 'D

Re: Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Wascally Wabbit
At 10:18 AM 10/4/2004, you wrote: Philosophical discussions of the "Why and Why-Nots of Ant" aside, there are a few Ant extensions that make it easier (than your listed solutions) to do mostly what you want. This group likes Ant-contrib, but I've found lots of other (well supported) extensions that

Re: Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Richard Russell
We are presently locked in to Ant, and moving away from it, while it would be a big job technically, would be a monumental job politically. We also require the Windows/Unix portability, and installing Cygwin is not an option, so shell scripts won't work for us. I haven't really looked into the

Re: Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Jeffrey Bacon
it's not just you. Ant tends to be a pain in the butt if you have to do a lot of scripting (ok, almost any scripting) work in your build system. If your build system consists of essentially a batch execution of a linear path of steps, Ant works great. As soon as you have to have some indeter

Thinking in Ant...

2004-10-04 Thread Richard Russell
Hi all, Firstly, please excuse the crufty formatting of this email -- my employer makes me use Notes. If people would prefer, I can paste this into a public Twiki somewhere... Just let me know the general preference. Secondly, I'm hoping that this email does not come across overly critical or

JAVAC task needs something from "endorsed"

2004-10-04 Thread Christian Ruediger
I am just beginning with a tutorial where tha javac task is used. When running it with no sources it works well. When running it with a simple source file, ANT complains about not finding teh "endorsed" folder. What is this good for, and how can I fix it. I would very much appreciate some halp in