[Quickget-develop] Ant build file observations

[Rohan R. <roh...@ya...>]

Hi all,

Since I underwent training on Ant a couple of days
back, I thought of looking at the build.xml which came
with quickget1.

I observe the following points : 

1. Build.xml complains when there is no "bin"
directory. As a solution, i have added a target called
"prepare". In the prepare target, i issue an mkdir
task to create the bin directory. The "all" target
depends on prepare target.Similarly the "clean" target
has been modified by me to delete the bin directory.

2. The "lib" property is cumbersome. I think there is
something called <path> which does the job cleanly.
Will investigate it further.

3. The "all" target should be replaced with separate
targets for each discrete task such as a target for
"compile", "jar" etc.

4. Versioning for generated JAR files?

5. A task for running the jar file?

6. (OT) Author's name please (for rants) ;-)

Please let me know your views on the same. I plan on
cleaning up the build file tomorrow and will forward
it to the author (who is the author?). (lets keep this
policy of submitting changes to modules to the
original author who will then review them and check
them in).

Regards,
Rohan


		
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