Re: Ant on Mac OS X

2014-03-05 Thread Donald McLean
Mac OS X is nothing like Windows. It's a version of Unix though. You should consider using one of the free IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse or IDEA Community Edition. On 3/5/14 4:03 PM, Tony Anecito wrote: Hi All, I am new to Mac OS X. What is the easiest way to get Ant running on OS X? I tried copy

Re: Java 7 incompatibility?

2012-01-10 Thread Donald McLean
The most likely cause is a classpath problem. Is the environment still pointing to Java6 jar files? Try enabling verbose output and see what you get. Donald On 1/10/12 10:12 AM, Dan Checkoway wrote: With Java 6 all is well... $ java -version java version "1.6.0_26" Java(TM) SE Runtime Enviro

Re: Ant not respecting JAVA_HOME

2011-08-22 Thread Donald McLean
How about putting quotes only around the part with the space? Alternately, is there an escape for the space? (in some form so Unix "\ " works). On 8/22/11 9:57 AM, Brian FitzGerald wrote: Thanks for the help guys... this is what I got: WITH QUOTES: C:\Users\Brian>cd C:\AntTest C:\AntTest>set

Re: Finding an available port number

2011-05-02 Thread Donald McLean
Depends on what you're trying to do. Most programming environments have a way to create a socket on an available port number. For example (from JavaDoc for java.net.ServerSocket): public ServerSocket(int port) throws IOException Creates a server socket, bound to the specified

Plugin to download jars from Maven repositories?

2011-01-21 Thread Donald McLean
One of the cool things about Maven and SBT is how they can automatically download many jar files as part of the build. Is there a plugin for Ant that does this? Donald - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org

Error using Ant

2009-10-14 Thread Donald McLean
I'm using 1.7.1 and got this error message: Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found. The build that I'm trying to run is failing for no reason that I can find. The error message appears to be coming from the first "property" statement.

Re: how to detect failed build

2008-02-26 Thread Donald McLean
I recommend TeamCity. We bought a license and I haven't regretted it even for one second. Vijay Aravamudhan wrote: hi, I have also seen some clients who use ant's MailLogger to notify interested parties of failed builds - in case you have a wide audience. btw: are you running inside a CI env

Re: How to compile co-dependent files

2008-02-21 Thread Donald McLean
As I understand things, it is only possible to resolve circular references in the same compile. In other words, they would have to not only be in the same target but they would also have to be in the same javac task within that target. YMMV, void where prohibited, cash value US$0.0002 mojoRis

Re: web-based ant front end?

2007-07-24 Thread Donald McLean
We use (and I like very much) the TeamCity product by JetBrains. They are the folks behind the IDEA IDE. One of my favorite things about it is the IDE integration. Donald McLean [just my own personal opinion] - To unsubscribe

Re: How I may run junit test cases in packages?

2007-04-27 Thread Donald McLean
that directories and Test Cases names a bit other. - Original Message - From: "Donald McLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:28 PM Subject: Re: How I may run junit test cases in packages? Ok, this is just a wild gue

Re: How I may run junit test cases in packages?

2007-04-27 Thread Donald McLean
Ok, this is just a wild guess, but is this where you would use something like: Donald Denis Bessmertnyj wrote: Hi All, My JUnit Test Cases have the next package structure /root_dir /testcase /compone

Re: ANT task to process properties-files into static class

2007-01-03 Thread Donald McLean
Rapthor wrote: Donald McLean wrote: Really? That sounds like a case of "The cure is worse than the disease." I can't imagine a single case where something like that would be a better solution than the three or four techniques for providing static attributes that I'm a

Re: ANT task to process properties-files into static class

2007-01-02 Thread Donald McLean
Really? That sounds like a case of "The cure is worse than the disease." I can't imagine a single case where something like that would be a better solution than the three or four techniques for providing static attributes that I'm already familiar with. However, of course, YMMV. Rapthor wrot

Re: cvs command

2005-07-06 Thread Donald McLean
And not passphrasing it is a good idea? I have to admit that, given the security ramifications, I would be hard to convince. Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote: You only need to use ssh-agent if your key is passphrased. -Rob A -Original Message- From: Shatzer, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Ant + JUnit: Missing Test Output

2005-06-30 Thread Donald McLean
Bing! I can't even guesss how I missed that. Thank you, Donald Ivan Ivanov wrote: Hello Donald, A quick look at you code shows that you are not using printsummary and showoutput attributes and Ant task. You can find them described at[1] HTH Ivan [1]http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTask

Ant + JUnit: Missing Test Output

2005-06-30 Thread Donald McLean
I'm trying to set up a configuration that runs our JUnit regession test suite from Ant. It runs, but I can't figure out what is happening to everything that is supposed to go to System.out. Undoubtedly, I'm doing something stupid, so feel free to make fun of me if you wish, but only if you hav