Re: using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread Carlos Araya
Jay, For my ebook production flow, I use an ant script that fetches files from a web server, unzips them, moves them a around and uses them to process the Docbook file. It is not trivial but it's also not too complicated, Carlos Sent from my iPad > On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Jay Bryant wro

Re: using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread GrĂ¼ner Heinrich
I use Ant as a framework and put a bunch of own tasks into it. It is now a automated-black-box-test-system. (www.microtest.eu) Am 15.01.2014 14:36, schrieb Mark Lybarger: hi, i'm putting together a simple business "flow" process. some zip files are pulled from a vendor. i need a process to

Re: using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread Jay Bryant
I have used Ant for business automation in the past. The document-production team needed to get the latest versions of all their files, run multiple transforms on each file, and then produce PDF, help files, and HTML. So I wrote an Ant file that had several targets, depending on which output they w

Re: using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread Rusi Popov
Hello, We use ANT (1.7.0) to automate the whole project's tasks, including build, package, database upgrade, deployment, code generation. The latter uses also ModelAnt 2.20 (http://mdatools.net) extension package. Use the ANT macros to organize the complex tasks repeated all over your scrip

RE: using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread McNish, Budd
Message- From: Mark Lybarger [mailto:mlybar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:36 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: using ant for non build tasks hi, i'm putting together a simple business "flow" process. some zip files are pulled from a vendor. i need a pr

using ant for non build tasks

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lybarger
hi, i'm putting together a simple business "flow" process. some zip files are pulled from a vendor. i need a process to do the following, archive the input, unzip the zip files, and execute some transformation on some of the data. currently, it's on a windows server, but we have linux servers i