Comments on: Ant Best Practices: The Clean Test http://www.build-doctor.com/2008/07/23/ant-best-practices-the-clean-test/ Continuous Integration, Delivery and Devops Consulting Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elenahttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/07/23/ant-best-practices-the-clean-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1328 Elena Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:04:57 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=73#comment-1328 Easier said than done. Ant is not powerful enough to let you write needed checks without duplication. Your example shows a very simple case. What do you do when you need a dependencies list of both absolute paths, relative paths, and path patterns? You can use neither "fileset" nor "filelist" for that. What do you do when you'd have to merge the content of two or more "filelist" or "fileset" elements? Not possible. Ant does not pass the "clean" test. How could your build script do that? Cheers. Easier said than done. Ant is not powerful enough to let you write needed checks without duplication. Your example shows a very simple case. What do you do when you need a dependencies list of both absolute paths, relative paths, and path patterns? You can use neither “fileset” nor “filelist” for that. What do you do when you’d have to merge the content of two or more “filelist” or “fileset” elements? Not possible.

Ant does not pass the “clean” test. How could your build script do that?

Cheers.

]]> By: builddoctorhttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/07/23/ant-best-practices-the-clean-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 builddoctor Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:05:37 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=73#comment-1097 IIRC, Ant will look for an XML file in it's classpath for this. You'd need <br>to tell me what the actual problem is, as this message is probably a red <br>herring. IIRC, Ant will look for an XML file in it's classpath for this. You'd need

to tell me what the actual problem is, as this message is probably a red

herring.

]]> By: sudheendrahttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/07/23/ant-best-practices-the-clean-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 sudheendra Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:57:33 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=73#comment-1096 where can i find antlib.xml file since the same message is appearing as ....... [antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found. where can i find antlib.xml file since the same message is appearing as ……. [antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.

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