Re: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Loughran
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Steve Loughran wrote: While I agree with everything in this doc, it shows the pent-up demand for a decent command-line app launcher from Java, above and beyond the classic "java -jar somejar args" technique. If/when we refactor Ant's / logic into a jakarta-commons

Re: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-07 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Steve Loughran wrote: > While I agree with everything in this doc, it shows the pent-up demand > for a decent command-line app launcher from Java, above and beyond the > classic "java -jar somejar args" technique. > > If/when we refactor Ant's / logic into a jakarta-commons > project (the maven pe

Re: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Loughran
Jeffrey E Care wrote: Ant is not intended to be used in this way. The fact that you can kind of hack it together to work should not be taken as encouragement to do so. You might want to read "Ant in Anger" (http://ant.apache.org/ant_in_anger.html) before setting yourself on this course. JEC

RE: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-06 Thread Brown, Carlton
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Giroux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:18 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: How to use ANT as a command shell > > I'm attempting to develop platform neutral launch scripts using ANT. The > product currently has bin/nt an

Re: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-06 Thread Jeffrey E Care
Ant is not intended to be used in this way. The fact that you can kind of hack it together to work should not be taken as encouragement to do so. You might want to read "Ant in Anger" (http://ant.apache.org/ant_in_anger.html) before setting yourself on this course. JEC -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EM

Re: How to use ANT as a command shell

2005-12-06 Thread Scot P. Floess
Michael: If you are using ant 1.6.0 or later, your default target can be defined as: .xml What exactly are you attempting to do? -Original Message- From: Michael Giroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 6, 2005 10:17 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: How to use ANT as a command shell I'm at