| README file for the jakarta-ant workspace |
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| This is the workspace for Ant, a Java based build tool. |
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| TODO List: |
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| * Improve documentation of how to use ant, how tasks are |
| constructed, etc. |
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| * Improve error reporting on BuildException catches. Error should |
| state which task and which target was active at the time the |
| BuildException was popped. |
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| * Improve error reporting on XML parse. Currently if the build.xml |
| file is malformed we get some sort of odd SAX exception that could |
| be better put. |
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| * Provide an AbstractFileCompareTask class with prebuilt "srcfile" |
| and "destfile" setter methods and whose execute method calls a |
| "updateNeeded" method. |
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| * CVS task to checkout a cvs tree from a particular server into a |
| given location. |
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| * Javadoc task -- ability to dance between 1.1 and 1.2 javadoc as |
| well as using other doclets like cocoons? |
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| * Transform task -- XSLT |
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| * Output logs in XML -- this would be a global option of the project |
| (log location, verboseness, etc) |
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| * Javac improvements -- support the "modern" 1.3 compiler |
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| * Investigate some sort of command line "execute an instance of a |
| task with these parameters" entry point. Maybe a |
| `org.apache.ant.TaskMain task org.foo.BarTask attrib1=foo |
| attrib2=bar` type entry point? |
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| * Investigate some sort of "touch" functionality. Not sure how this |
| could be done in a portable way -- maybe append 0 bytes to a file |
| as a quick hack? |
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| * GUI front end -- examine tasks, add task properties, etc. Also, |
| one button push build of a particular target. |
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| * Test harness. All software projects should have an automatable |
| test suite. Ant is no exception to this rule. |
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