RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-27 Thread Panchal, Archanaa
: RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args Turn on -verbose or -debug, and study the output when it's scanning for the files. Fileset works like this by design... Most things in Ant revolve around fileset, so you'd better understand it cold ;-) Study it's doc. If you want absolute paths,

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-27 Thread Dominique Devienne
hat, but won't take a path I'm afraid. Just wrap you head around fileset ;-) --DD > -Original Message- > From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:59 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line arg

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-27 Thread michael sorens
I'll check on that... in order to do that, however, how can I dump what is in the fileset (for debugging) ? And why do absolute paths not work? That seems like an odd restriction... On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:27:53 -0600, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: michael sorens [mailto:[EM

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-27 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I had an open question on this issue several days ago for which no one has > taken up the gauntlet. Well, in fact I did answer... > To make it very brief, I want to use a set of files in two places: inside > an checker, > and as s to a task.

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-27 Thread michael sorens
I had an open question on this issue several days ago for which no one has taken up the gauntlet. To make it very brief, I want to use a set of files in two places: inside an checker, and as s to a task. The build file fragment shown here works for the check, but the js.plain.files property c

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
I actually need to use a separate task from my task (because of the mapping I do in the elements below). So going with the suggested fileset/pathconvert idea, I created three s...

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with > every detail of ant, > finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. So I typically start > with a plain file search. > And my file sea

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not > intimately familiar with every detail of ant, > finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. For any new user of Ant, I would heartily recommend viewing the HTML manual, frames and all, and fr

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Benson
What do you think a mailing list is for? Regards, Matt --- The Blindfolded Pianist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Why are you sending mass emails about this problem > to everybody? It's flooding my email inbox. > > -T.B.P. > > michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I looke

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread The Blindfolded Pianist
Hey, Why are you sending mass emails about this problem to everybody? It's flooding my email inbox. -T.B.P. michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with every detail of ant, finding things in the manual is quite a challe

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with every detail of ant, finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. So I typically start with a plain file search. And my file search turned out only the single reference I mentioned, because I searched for "" not for

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The only reference I find to "" is in "requested-features.txt" -- I > assume that means it has not yet been implemented (or released) ...? Well, has been a core ant task for a long time. Have you looked into the manual? ;-) > In any case, her

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
The only reference I find to "" is in "requested-features.txt" -- I assume that means it has not yet been implemented (or released) ...? In any case, here's my example:

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I want to run a java task with a specific list of file names as command- > line arguments (typically for each file), but I also > want to run a check with a fileset that is precisely the same > list of files. How can this be done without havin