Re: [Quickget-develop] Ant build file observations

[Aegir S. <Aeg...@Su...>]

Hi, Rohan:

Good job! I update some information inline.

Regards,
Aegir

Rohan Ranade wrote:

>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?
>  
>
It seems to be a good plus. And we can trigger the running of jar file by
something like "ant run"...
And I also suggest to add the necessary information in the meta file in 
jar file  to
support the "java -jar quickget.jar".

>6. (OT) Author's name please (for rants) ;-)
>  
>
Alex is the author.

>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).
>  
>
Sounds good. And Alex please check them into the quickget2 module. I
am now refactoring quickget2 to use new patterns (state pattern) to add the
management ability to start/stop/resume the task.

>Regards,
>Rohan
>
>
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