----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Stirling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 15:20 Subject: RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5]
> Yeah, but why call them from Ant? It makes more sense to me to call Ant > from a shell script, calling targets and feeding it parameters, instead of > vice-versa. That's how Ant gets started up from $ANT_HOME/bin anyway. As > soon as you're inside Ant world you lose things like return codes, streaming > text editors and easy piping from one command to another. The new > FilterChains in Ant are very cool, but you have to write, compile and > package custom Java code for multi-line edit one-offs that sed and grep or > perl can do in 1-4 lines of code (granted, sed and perl require their own > environments to run (well, standalone (non-Cygwin) sed and grep can be > obtained for Windows), but aren't things like sed and perl at least as > widely available, even on Windows, as Ant and a 1.3 JDK?) activestate perl is very god; has com object control too. But we do need a sed task in ant, somehow. >. However, it may be worth > revisiting to see if CruiseControl provides some other benefits he's > overlooking. It has a well founded reputation as being a dog to set up, but I hear it is improving. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
