Re: Deriving something from from within

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Giroux
If you do not wish to change the utility, you might consider using a script to achieve the transformation. The task would specify a shell script as the executable, and the script would invoke the target utility. The script itself would be self contained within the build.xml. Something similar to

Re: Deriving something from from within

2006-04-06 Thread b
Matt, You did correctly understand the problem I am trying to solve. I will look into the that you mentioned. However, my problem could be easily solved if I could access the value of the current via a property. That is, if whatever resolves to during an iteration of could also be acces

Re: Deriving something from from within

2006-04-06 Thread Matt Benson
So your utility requires, for the file "foo.in", e.g.: utility foo.in blahfoo.in but the target file is determined automatically? ( w/o ) In this case I might have to recommend antcontrib's . Even if we added the ability to duplicate and/or , "foo.in" would still be a separate argument from "b

Deriving something from from within

2006-04-06 Thread b
I'm trying to code up an in ANT. I need to run a utility which takes 2 parameters, 1) a source file name (), and 2) something derived from the source file name (value="...">). The output of this program is a file, whose name is derived from the source file name (, which is used for timestam