AW: echo with html

>> Does anybody have a task that will let you echo to a file while >> including html in the message. > >There will be an task in 1.7, until then > > ><[CDATA[generated by >Ant]]> > >will do. But I would think about a template file and with s. Most of the html file would be static and only a

Re: Problems with exec task

Excellent suggestion! I wasn't aware of the existence of the AntWiki. What's the best way to go then? Maybe add a topic or even a new page under Proposals where we can discuss where best to inform people about the issues raised in this thread? Or simply add information to the AntOddities page?

Re: echo with html

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Elizabeth Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody have a task that will let you echo to a file while > including html in the message. There will be an task in 1.7, until then <[CDATA[generated by Ant]]> will do. Stefan

RE: Problems with exec task

*THIS* is the magic to which I was referring... getting .vbs associated with cscript.exe. I'm glad someone responded - I tried retracing my steps and didn't get very far. K At 15:10 2006-01-30, Dick, Brian E. wrote: Actually, wscript.exe is usually associated with Windows scripting

RE: Problems with exec task

> Any thoughts on how we could brainstorm this? It needn't take > much time but I'd like to do something to keep other people > from having big problems with exec if we possibly can. Maybe http://wiki.apache.org/ant/ is a starting point. Cheers, Steve.

Re: Problems with exec task

Fair enough, there probably is no "one size fits all" solution in this case. Still, I'd hate to leave people to flounder with only the handful of examples in the current 'exec' article in the manual; they simply aren't much help. People can always post to the list and eventually sort out their

RE: Problems with exec task

The exec task is always problematic because you are leaving the ant/java world and entering into an alien space. Not only are there variations between OSes, but individual commands on the same OS behave differently. No matter how many times I use it, I end up having to try different combinations of

Re: Problems with exec task

- Original Message - From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 2:35 PM Subject: Re: Problems with exec task [snip] Does the Ant manual mention that you can handle embedded blanks in a path with a pair of single quotes? I don't re

RE: Problems with exec task

Actually, wscript.exe is usually associated with Windows scripting languages. I suggested cscript.exe because it is more appropriate for console usage. Wscript.exe displays debug and echo messages in dialog boxes. Cscript.exe displays messages as text. BTW, this is a Windows thing and doesn't have

RE: When is the next release?

Even with the binary distribution, unless you have the dependant jars some tasks will not work. So if you want a "fully working" Ant release, you need to get the 3rd party jars whether you are building from source or using the binary dist. Of course the term "fully working Ant distribution" is r

Re: Problems with exec task

Rhino wrote: Hurrah! Problem solved! That did it, Tommy! Here's the revised property and exec which now works fine: Therefore, the executable needs to be 'cscript.exe' and the path name needs to be within single quotes if it contains embedded blanks. Many thanks to all who gave sug

Re: Problems with exec task

Rhino wrote: Thank you both for your suggestions, Clifton and Brian, but I'm afraid neither one worked! When I tried this from my command line: cmd.exe start "C:\Documents and Settings\Rhino\My Documents\LaunchWdMacro.vbs" Fred Flintstone All I got was: Microsoft Windows XP [Version

Re: Problems with exec task

Hurrah! Problem solved! That did it, Tommy! Here's the revised property and exec which now works fine: Therefore, the executable needs to be 'cscript.exe' and the path name needs to be within single quotes if it contains embedded blanks. Many thanks to all who gave suggestions, part

Re: echo with html

use a standard ant task to launch a script in a language such as perl or python. In perl in particular, you can embed html directly in a perl script (see the term here document in a standard perl text book) On Jan 30, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Sommers, Elizabeth wrote: Does anybody have a task that wi

RE: echo with html

Not sure if this is the problem, but you can use markers to escape the HTML within your build file. Hope this helps Keith -Original Message- From: Sommers, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2006 16:45 To: 'user@ant.apache.org' Subject: echo with html Does anybody h

echo with html

Does anybody have a task that will let you echo to a file while including html in the message. Echo doesn't do this out of the box. I would rather not have to write it for myself if somebody else has built a report generator to do this. Thanks Liz Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: AW: Ant exam

Thanks for your feedback Jan. I changed the objectives. Could you write a line for the refid (I'm not Ant expert at all) to be inserted in the Classpath objectives ? > Because you have to register and login in for anything else, I cant say > more. You can take the test without registering. Bu

Re: Problems with exec task

One thing you might try is to enclose the path name of the vbs executable in single quotes in the property def, also run ant with the command line option -debug or -verbose, since ant by default won't print errors that occur during running of the exec task. On Jan 30, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Rhin

Re: Problems with exec task

Thank you both for your suggestions, Clifton and Brian, but I'm afraid neither one worked! When I tried this from my command line: cmd.exe start "C:\Documents and Settings\Rhino\My Documents\LaunchWdMacro.vbs" Fred Flintstone All I got was: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] The

RE: When is the next release?

> -Original Message- > From: Clifton Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2006 1:02 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: When is the next release? > > So what you all are saying is that without all of the 3rd > party jars the best I can get out of the ant sour

RE: Problems with exec task

You could also try cscript.exe. That's the actual command processor for vbs and other Windows scripting languages. -Original Message- From: Clifton Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:52 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Problems with exec task Rhino, Here

Re: When is the next release?

So what you all are saying is that without all of the 3rd party jars the best I can get out of the ant source distro is an incomplete build? I checked and that is right, the optional task jars are all empty. I also looked around for a fetch.xml and could not find one. That is somewhat discouragi

Re: Problems with exec task

Rhino, Here's another shot in the dark. Try using the start command to invoke the vbs. On the command line use: cmd.exe start /path/to/LaunchWdMacro.vbs ...then try the equivalent in Ant. --- Clifton C. Craig, Software Engineer Intelligent Compute