is task only if something is not a valid
zip file, in which case you are using a task as a condition, and probably
should be using some sort of test first...
Cheers,
Richard Russell
Deutsche Bank AG London
Global Markets Customer Solutions
Office: +44 (0)20 7545 8060
Mobile: +44 (0)79 0661 2237
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Ant (or make) is not a general purpose scripting language!
Mr. Bourne wrote a pretty good scripting language.
Yes, but sh (& friends) are not installed by default on Windows, and
hence, scripts written for them aren't portable... In make (which isn't
portable, I know), you can basically
th ...
I keep coming across things that i could really use, but they can never be
combined in the way I want.
Cheers,
Richard Russell
Deutsche Bank AG London
Global Markets Customer Solutions
Office: +44 (0)20 7545 8060
Mobile: +44 (0)79 0661 2237
Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
puter (the ability to do repetitive tasks with
little effort on the part of the user). Surely, when you have the
primitives already, there should be a way to combine them relatively
trivially.
If someone could point me in the right direction here, I'd be very
grateful.
Cheers,
Richard Ru
We are presently locked in to Ant, and moving away from it, while it would
be a big job technically, would be a monumental job politically. We also
require the Windows/Unix portability, and installing Cygwin is not an
option, so shell scripts won't work for us. I haven't really looked into
the
le I can code Java, I'm not a developer,
and have no desire to become one. Certainly, I challenge even a top
developer to come up with some sort of append attribute for Copy in the
time it took me to write the equivalent shell script above.
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