You're putting too much in your description attributes. The
description attribute does two things: It marks which targets are
"external" -- that is targets the user should run, and it helps
(merely helps) the user to remember which target does what.
The "ant -projecthelp" will only display targets
Unfortunately 'description' attribute does not allow usage of properties
like ${line.separator}. However, ant files are XML files.
So you can use XML character escapes and parser will put correct
character for you.
For example:
is a new line character. You can add
if you want return
charact
Hi
In using -projecthelp with ant on Win XP, I found that the description
column isn't too friendly with displaying a long description.
In the display I got,
C:ant -buildfile auto_perform_draft.xml -projecthelp
Buildfile: auto_perform_draft.xml
Main targets:
display_usage_message This target di
