Re: [Nant-users] run task on failure

2004-05-13 Thread Steve . Baker
Thanks Gert, that is exactly what I was looking for... :) "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/13/2004 01:59 PM                 To:        "Bob Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [Nant-users] run task on f

Re: [Nant-users] run task on failure

2004-05-13 Thread Gert Driesen
You can define a property named "nant.onfailure", and set its value to the name of the target that should be executed when the project fails. - Original Message - From: "Bob Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:40 PM Subje

RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED

2004-05-13 Thread Martin Gainty
Scripts are inherently single threaded on Windows boxes which is why when you spawn multiple JVM threads on a Windows box requesting a Resource such as -Delete Directory -Create Directory -Any other IO with a forked JVM nothing physically happens until the forked JVM returns In fact i I forked a VM

RE: [Nant-users] run task on failure

2004-05-13 Thread Bob Archer
You should be able to make the CheckIn target dependent on the Modify target. If the modify target fails the checkin target will not run.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Nant-users] run task on failure

2004-05-13 Thread Steve . Baker
i have a situation where i would like to run a task to put a system back in its initial state if another task fails. Something like this: check out file modify file > fails check in modifications label build undo checkout if failure the key is i don't want to run the checkin, label, and buil

Re: [Nant-users] mailing list questions

2004-05-13 Thread Scott Hernandez
http://mail-archive.com (If your favorite mail list isn't subscribed already, do it... )   See the nant wiki for more info http://nant.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ListArchiveSearches - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu

[Nant-users] mailing list questions

2004-05-13 Thread Steve . Baker
please help a mailing list noobie :) is there a good way to search the archives for keywords before posting a new question? and how would i respond specifically to this post to help out: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4168916&forum_id=9544 thanks in advance steve

RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and F AILED

2004-05-13 Thread Price, Henry
Title: Message Apologies if this is a repeat...     The parent property problem is resolvable if you define the property in the parent script (probably as or something). You can then reset it in nested scripts (I assume that's what you're talking about when you say a controlling project? A

RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED

2004-05-13 Thread Bill.Martin
Title: RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED Thanks for that Henry,   It's not quite what I want to do, but it has given me a couple of ideas.  Your idea of defining a property is good, I can do this inside my task and add or modify the property on the projec

RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and F AILED

2004-05-13 Thread Price, Henry
Title: Message Martin,   That's fine if your tasks are simplistic, and you can organise them in that way (although personally, I don't like the dependency way of doing things anyway, as I feel they make the scripts harder to read :) . However, many of my tasks have sections of script, and ex

Re: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED

2004-05-13 Thread Martin Gainty
Title: RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED Henry/BillA)Put all of your mission critical tasks up front in some sort of clean or init target specifying failonerror="true" for all critical tasks B)introduce the concept of task dependencies to later targets..co

RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and F AILED

2004-05-13 Thread Price, Henry
Title: RE: [Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED I've worked around a similar problem which relates to the success of Nunit tests (amongst other things) based on external sources. We have no control over them, so they are prone to fail which would normally cause th

[Nant-users] Interim state on a build between SUCCEEDED and FAILED

2004-05-13 Thread Bill.Martin
I have written a custom task to perform a scan on a VS project file when the build is executed to ensure the project complies with standards (it checks that option explicit is set in a VB project for example and checks for files in the archive that aren't part of the project.) The problem I have i