AW: AW: Rename a dir

2010-03-28 Thread Knuplesch, Juergen
Hello, I now wrote my own task "renamedir", because 1.I find the described syntax confusing (calling a dir a file will confuse me again, when I have to analyze the code in a few months) 2.It does not seem to do what it should under windows XP 3.I inspected the source code of ANT 1.7.1 and it is

Re: AW: http request handling

2010-03-28 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Robert, so I assume you are looking for some kind of "graphical" user interface to let you users make proper choices about "build options" (i.e. property values). Anyway, something like this does not exist in Ant - and probably never will. CI tools would be an overkill -- agreed -- but worse, pro

Re: AW: http request handling

2010-03-28 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Robert, to get a decent response, it would be wise to elaborate in your own words what you would like to (a) achieve and (b) how this could be done with ant. To me, it looks like this: 1. You have a project that you can build with Ant; so there is a build.xml with some targets (clean, compile, t

Re: AW: http request handling

2010-03-28 Thread Robert Kirkpatrick
I initially submitted my use case to the antForm guys - see the spec and discussion in attachment. An ant-embedded http server looks to me as a natural extension to the ant-contrib AntServer task. Of course the purpose is not to play the role of a classical Web server, but well to drive a

Re: AW: http request handling

2010-03-28 Thread Robert Kirkpatrick
I initially submitted my use case to the antForm guys - see the spec and discussion in attachment. An ant-embedded http server looks to me as a natural extension to the ant-contrib AntServer task. Of course the purpose is not to play the role of a classical Web server, but well to drive a bu