seemless integration of custom tasks?

hi, does anyone know if its possible to write ant tasks in a jar file with some configuration data such that you don't need to insert a declaration into each script that needs to use them? i.e. once you've dropped your jar file into the ant distribution's lib directory, then the new task is a

ant roadmap?

hi, just wondering - is there a roadmap for ant development? this is purely because there was talk about ant 2 at some point a while ago (Jan 2003), but I've not heard anything since :) http://ant.apache.org/ant2/ thanks, Andrew

depends executed before if/unless

hi, I've come across what seems to be quite a deep problem with my understanding of ANT. When you declare a target is both conditional, and that it has dependencies, the dependencies are executed first, and then the condition is evaluated. So will go to all of the trouble of setting up

RE: how to have both xml and stdout logging?

oops, got it now - use a listener.. ant -listener org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -DXmlLogger.file=foobarbaz.xml thanks, Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 January 2005 17:25 > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: h

how to have both xml and stdout logging?

hi, is there a simple way to have an xml log file generated, and the normal stdout logging? I've checked through the manual and examples but there doesn't appear to be a way - if there isn't would it be reasonable to submit a RFE? thanks, Andrew --