How to manage without rules

["WATKINS, Andy, FM" <An...@rbos.com>]

In make you have rules, not so in ant

I have a target as follows

  <target name="project1_test" depends="">
    <junit printsummary="no" haltonfailure="yes" fork="yes" timeout="60000">
      <jvmarg value="-Dlog.dir=project1" />

      <classpath>
        <path refid="localclasses"/>
        <path refid="classpath"/>
      </classpath>

      <formatter usefile="false" type="plain" />

      <batchtest fork="yes">
        <fileset dir="${rbsfm}/project1/classes"
includes="**/*$$Test.class" />
      </batchtest>
    </junit>
    <echo message="Common tests completed OK" />
  </target>




The problem is that I have 10 different projects, that all need this
sort of target, but with different directories.

In make, I would have a target called "*.test" and use $@ to pull out the
value


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Re: How to manage without rules

[Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:04, T Master wrote:
> What is wrong with using antcall?  I make a generic target, and pass in the
> paremeters to use.
> It does the job with use similar to method calling in Java.

The problem is that you invariable start need functionality like recursive 
proeprty resolution and besides it makes your ant files hard to follow at 
times. See a message titled "Re: Question about properties and ant2" by me 
around Sept 14th for more explanation.


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Re: How to manage without rules

[T Master <tm...@iknowledgeinc.com>]

What is wrong with using antcall?  I make a generic target, and pass in the
paremeters to use.
It does the job with use similar to method calling in Java.

I don't know of "make rules" (or I've forgotten!), so does anyone have an
example?

T Master


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Donald" <do...@apache.org>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: How to manage without rules


> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:43, WATKINS, Andy, FM wrote:
> > In make you have rules, not so in ant
>
> yet ... hopefully Ant will have notion of rules in future ;)
>
> However there is no real easy way of doing it currently. The best way may
be
> to use <antcall> to call the target and pass in the specific parameters
you
> want to use.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Pete

Re: How to manage without rules

[Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:43, WATKINS, Andy, FM wrote:
> In make you have rules, not so in ant

yet ... hopefully Ant will have notion of rules in future ;)

However there is no real easy way of doing it currently. The best way may be 
to use <antcall> to call the target and pass in the specific parameters you 
want to use.

> I have a target as follows
>
>   <target name="project1_test" depends="">
>     <junit printsummary="no" haltonfailure="yes" fork="yes"
> timeout="60000"> <jvmarg value="-Dlog.dir=project1" />
>
>       <classpath>
>         <path refid="localclasses"/>
>         <path refid="classpath"/>
>       </classpath>
>
>       <formatter usefile="false" type="plain" />
>
>       <batchtest fork="yes">
>         <fileset dir="${rbsfm}/project1/classes"
> includes="**/*$$Test.class" />
>       </batchtest>
>     </junit>
>     <echo message="Common tests completed OK" />
>   </target>
>
>
>
>
> The problem is that I have 10 different projects, that all need this
> sort of target, but with different directories.
>
> In make, I would have a target called "*.test" and use $@ to pull out the
> value
>
>
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