Re: and failifexecutionfails

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Loughran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must admit that this area seems to be a real shortcoming in existing ANT tasks - not being able to reliably swallow errors in subtasks, whatever they may be. You have to remember that Ant is designed to be a build tool, first and foremost, not a generic workflow sy

Re: and failifexecutionfails

2005-09-20 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must admit that this area seems to be a real shortcoming in existing ANT tasks - not being able to reliably swallow errors in subtasks, whatever they may be. When I was trying to solve this problem before, there were suggestions as to how I can check that the spe

RE: and failifexecutionfails

2005-09-20 Thread cefn.hoile
rrors generically, regardless of the type of task. Can it be built? Cefn http://cefn.com -Original Message- From: Nicolas Vervelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/19/2005 8:28 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: and failifexecutionfails Hi again, I found how to overcome this proble

Re: and failifexecutionfails

2005-09-19 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Hi again, I found how to overcome this problem : I first try to run xgettext2 with task and with only one arg (--help) abd with attributes failifexecutionfails="false" resultproperty="xxx" just to check for xgettext2 existence. Then I can use if xgettext2 exists. To me, it really seems to b