Can you tell me what search words to use for finding some of these many examples that you say are in the archives? I spent considerable time looking in the archive already, using search terms like 'conditional property' and so forth but none of them revealed a clear example that resembled what I am trying to do.
I really don't want to take a lot of time from anyone on the list. I'm sure you're all very busy on your own work. I just need to see some examples that set properties based on conditions and that keep those properties visible in later tasks. I prefer to stay with core tasks whenever I can but optional tasks and ant-contrib tasks are okay if I can't accomplish the task any other way. I am really not clear on the best technique to use and I have spent several hours messing around trying to come up with something that works. So far, <antcallback> is the only technique that works for me. I'd prefer to use "best" techniques over "abominations" but I don't have anything besides <antcallback> that works yet. By the way, why don't I see ant-contrib in the Ant manual under Optional Tasks? Are the ant-contrib tasks considered bad choices for some reason? Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominique Devienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:59 AM Subject: RE: Properties set within conditions > From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't think I've ever seen a target that sets properties within a > conditional before. Could you possibly provide an example? > > By the way, I've got my script working very nicely now with 'antcallback'. > Thanks *very* much for this suggestion! However, I'd still like to see > other > ways to do the same thing, especially ways that don't involve installing > extra tasks. <antcallback> is clearly the wrong way about it... The pure Ant way is to use either targets with if/unless that you *depend* on (as opposed to <antcall>), or use several properties files of which you load just one based on another property value. The archives as many many such examples. The Ant-contrib way would be to simply use <if> or <switch> to set the property conditionally. <antcallback> is an abomination and should never be used ;-) --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
