Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-01-12, Francis Galiegue wrote: > Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : >> On 2009-01-12, Francis Galiegue wrote: >>> The more it goes, the more I'm skeptical about this "different development >>> model" schism between ant and ant-contrib. >> Ant == community driven ASF pro

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : > On 2009-01-12, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > > The more it goes, the more I'm skeptical about this "different development > > model" schism between ant and ant-contrib. > > Ant == community driven ASF project > ant-contrib == "benevolent dictato

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-01-12, Francis Galiegue wrote: > The more it goes, the more I'm skeptical about this "different development > model" schism between ant and ant-contrib. Ant == community driven ASF project ant-contrib == "benevolent dictator" style project with external contributions > Or

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, patrick wyss a écrit : [...] > Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > > > Yes, the Ant way is to write a custom task, or more generally the Ant > > way is to move the iteration into a task rather than have it external. > > > this is probably the way to go... > and on a second thought

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread patrick wyss
thanks everybody for the answers. Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > My major problems with ant-contrib today would be that it never had a > proper release (1.0b3 is more than two years old) and seems to be more > or less unmaintained. > there is a beta 5 from alst april... but still it'll be hard to

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-01-08, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> Your specific problem is extraordinarily commons, though. A companion >> task to that provides what is to has been asked >> for many times before, >> it just seems as if nobofy has found th

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Your specific problem is extraordinarily commons, though. A companion > task to that provides what is to has been asked > for many times before, I'm pretty certain there is a bugzilla issue > for it[1] I've used to fork java.exe in the

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-01-08, patrick wyss wrote: > so now i found for and foreach from the ant-contrib > *but* [disclaimer, I've contributed to ant-contrib and I am an Ant committer, don't expect an unbiased response] > 2) some of the other tasks seem rather obscure to me (AntCallBack, > RunTarget, Throw) so

Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le jeudi 08 janvier 2009, patrick wyss a écrit : > > hi there, > > i have the reqirement to do a java call for each file in a filelist. > > first i tought i'd use the "Apply" task, but then again i do not realy want > to start a new process and load a new JVM etc. for each file i handle. > > so

RE: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread Rémon van Gijn
Hi patrick, I think you can use the lib (just 1) without hesitation, why they are not in normal ant is mystery to us as well, but we have been using ant contrib. For 4 years now and use it in our entire build system (and it quite large). I would not know what to do without them. As far we are