RE: [ jEdit-users ] AntFarm 1.0 Probs

[Brian K. <Br...@PS...>]

> From: Art Taylor Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:16 PM
> A) The interface seems a lot more cumbersome than the 0.5.1 
> version. The use of the console instead of the client text 
> window really mangles the workflow, as I have all of my 
> windows docked on the right side of my screen to leave 
> maximum vertical space for code, and the console is not wide 
> enough to print output cleanly.  Clicking on any of the build 
> targets raises the console tab, which is also disruptive.  Is 
> this a buggy installation on my machine, or is this actually 
> intended behavior?

The behavior you describe is by design. AntFarm and the Console are now very
tightly coupled. All commands from the tree view of AntFarm are sent to the
Ant Shell in the Console for execution. I suggest you dock the Console
plugin at the bottom or top of jEdit. Alternatively, you could just use the
Ant Shell in the Console plugin to run Ant builds, thus avoiding the tree
view all together. Perhaps in the next version I can look at providing an
option to avoid excessive Console popups.

> B) Internal-ANT seems to be causing ANT to fail to resolve 
> relative classpath directives in the javac element, which was 
> not happening with 0.5.1.  I use paths relative to where the 
> build.xml file is kept, at the base of the project.  This 
> works fine with the external process.

I have not had problems with using relative path names for the classpath
(e.g. <pathelement path="../some.jar" /> ). How exactly are you specifying
your classpath? Also, what is the "basedir" attribute set to for the project
node?

-Brian