| Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant integration in Eclipse |
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Great ideas - but one thing is still missing to
make Ant integration as smooth as possible...
An action simulating or working like ant -find
build.xml
It is what e.g. Emacs JDEE ant support does when it
starts an ant build.
It uses the current selected resource (buffer in
emacs) and search for a build.xml file
from here and up to the root of the filesystem - or
until it finds a build.xml and then ant
starts chewing on this
build.xml....
And if the entering of which target one should use
could be done with keyboard and a little
help of completion instead of using the mouse
to select a checkbox from a list of maybe 30 targets
then it would be heaven :)
What it is so great about this ? It is great
because then you are not forced to go look for the correct build.xml manually -
neither in the package/resource view or in the
predefined ant targets in the external tools menu - eclipse just takes the
best
guess and in this situation it will often be the
correct one as the build.xml related to a resource is normally stored in one of
its parent directories - and their can only be one build.xml when searching like
that :)
so - please add that to your goals for ant
support, it should be breeze to implement :)
/max
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