RE: includes property not working

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Benson
--- David Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I haven't. I looked at the docs for includesfile > and because it didn't > mention it thought that it wouldn't expand > properties. I just tried it and > it worked great. Thanks! > > I am still curious why the property didn't work, > though...

RE: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > > It's your mapper the pb I bet. I'm not sure of what you want to achieve > > exactly, I'd have to know where the files are to be sure, but try > > > > from="*.xml" to="../../foo/*.java". > > > > well that did something. now the property is never set. > Hmm perhaps

Re: SCP support in ANT 1.5

2005-03-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
Use a native SCP client and do something like this I have a global .build.properties that I import in all build files that is stored in my user.home directory which has "scp=pscp". The "pscp" program is an SCP client is from the Putty project (yes, I'm using Windows). In any ca

RE: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread dbrosius
Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I must say i'm puzzled as to the > > format of the uptodate task. > > It doesn't make sense, to my little brain. > > It took me a while to figure it out too. > Actually, I use Ant-Contrib's

Re: SCP support in ANT 1.5

2005-03-03 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
scp in general creates too many problems. One of them is that it is hard to make it not to copy the same files again in the next execution. A samba or NFS share is a lot easier to use. - Alexey.Murtuza J. wrote: Hello, Does ANT 1.5 support scp task? Is there a jar available that I can use to

RE: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I must say i'm puzzled as to the > format of the uptodate task. > It doesn't make sense, to my little brain. It took me a while to figure it out too. Actually, I use Ant-Contrib's instead ;-) > to="../../foo/*.java"/> It

SCP support in ANT 1.5

2005-03-03 Thread Balasinorwala, Murtuza J.
Hello, Does ANT 1.5 support scp task? Is there a jar available that I can use to implement the scp task in my existing scripts. Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Arun Gupta
This helps me understand the background. > > Lets say I'm a lazy programmer and dont want to > > specify nested elements in my task for only one > set > > of > > files that needs to be included. I'd rather > provide > > the option of specifying "includes" attribute as > > well. > > How do I do t

Re: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread dbrosius
Quoting Jeffrey E Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't see you setting @from; that is probably the problem. > OK, i added the from, and that fixed my NPE. But now the property seems to be always set to true, even when it shouldn't. I must say i'm puzzled as to the format of the uptodate task. It

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Arun Gupta
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But does that mean I cannot have an > > "includes" attribute on my task and need to rely > upon > > the explicit nested filesets only ? > > Yep, that's what I'd recommend. > > Is > That much better than />? > > I personally don't think so.

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Benson
--- Arun Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > > way, please do not derive from MatchingTask! > Can you share the reasoning behind this opinion ? MatchingTask has lots of baggage. Most tasks that extend from MatchingTask have to BE filesets and su

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> But does that mean I cannot have an > "includes" attribute on my task and need to rely upon > the explicit nested filesets only ? Yep, that's what I'd recommend. Is That much better than ? I personally don't think so. I often give my nested elements more explicit names too, like , , etc... >

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Arun Gupta
--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [SNIP] > > Using an implicit fileset is just not as intuitive > > as > > using an explicit one, and I recommend you simply > > derive > > from Task, and have a > > add(FileSet ds) > > method. Your impl

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Benson
--- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > Using an implicit fileset is just not as intuitive > as > using an explicit one, and I recommend you simply > derive > from Task, and have a > add(FileSet ds) > method. Your impl can then accept just one filesets, > or > many, in which case

RE: Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Arun Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Also, searching in the list archives, I've seen it's > not recommended [1] to use MatchingTask as the parent > class. What is the motivation behind that > recommendation ? Is it going to be deprecated in a > subsequent release ? It should be, but too

Deriving from MatchingTask

2005-03-03 Thread Arun Gupta
I'm writing a custom task that require to support "includes" attribute and nested fileset elements to specify the location of source files. The source file list should be a union of files specified in the "includes" attribute and those specified in the nested fileset element (is that a correct expe

cab task

2005-03-03 Thread Radha Sangal
Has anyone used the cab task before. Is there a counterpart of this task , like un-cab or something? I tried unzip and unjar but they don't work with cab files..

RE: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread dbrosius
Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > but looking at setFrom, it seems the only possible NPE would be if the > > parameter (from) was null. > > Well, I don't see a 'from' attribute in your mapper above ;-) --DD Oh,

Re: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread Jeffrey E Care
I don't see you setting @from; that is probably the problem. -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/2005 02:26 PM Please respond to "Ant Users Li

RE: Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > but looking at setFrom, it seems the only possible NPE would be if the > parameter (from) was null. Well, I don't see a 'from' attribute in your mapper above ;-) --DD

Problems with task uptodate

2005-03-03 Thread dbrosius
I am using 1.6.2 on windows xp w/1.4.2_06 I generate java files from xml files, and only want to do this if the xml files have changed. Task udtodate seemed what i wanted. The base xml and java files names match, so i tried I

unzip cab files

2005-03-03 Thread Radha Sangal
Is there any technique in Ant from which we can unzip the contents of Cab Files. Its nothing but an executable zip folder which has the ocx and INF file in it.

Re: Replacing with File Size

2005-03-03 Thread Ivan Ivanov
> > Ant 1.6.3 (and recent nightly builds) will contain a > length task that can set a property to the length of > a file or string. OK, but why a task only for a file length? The mailing list archives contains examples for file length, last modified date and a check whether a directory is empty a

Re: Problems Ant + CVS + Cygwin

2005-03-03 Thread Yuji Yamano
rakesh mailgroups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a CVS respository on the network accessed via ssh. > > Eclipse works fine, as does the cygwin command line. Getting Ant to > talk to the repository however does not work. Here is my code: > > >cvsRoot=":ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fixing crlf without changing timestamp

2005-03-03 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Matt Benson wrote: I have applied this patch to CVS HEAD and plan to put it in for Ant 1.6.3 . Would've been even better with docs and tests, ;) Thanks, Matt --- Yuji Yamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "michael sorens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is it possible to run without changing a

Re: fixing crlf without changing timestamp

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Benson
I have applied this patch to CVS HEAD and plan to put it in for Ant 1.6.3 . Would've been even better with docs and tests, ;) Thanks, Matt --- Yuji Yamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "michael sorens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible to run without changing a > file's > > modi

Re: fixing crlf without changing timestamp

2005-03-03 Thread michael sorens
I'm not familiar with applying ant patches, plus I don't have a strong need for the fixcrlf right now, so I'm going to have to postpone any trials for the time being... On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:35:58 +0900 (JST), Yuji Yamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "michael sorens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I

ocx file properties

2005-03-03 Thread Radha Sangal
Would anyone know in this group, if its possible to grab ocx file properties (for its version) from downloaded program file folder in ANT? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Radha

Re: fixing crlf without changing timestamp

2005-03-03 Thread Yuji Yamano
"michael sorens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to run without changing a file's > modification time? Or perhaps a way to use to restore the > original modification time after the (on a group of > files)? I actually want to run fixcrlf in conjunction with copy > (which has the pr