----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:49
AM
Subject: Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant
integration in Eclipse
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
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 6:54
PM
Subject: [platform-ant-dev] Ant
integration in Eclipse
There have been several
posts to this mailing list regarding the usability/integration of Ant in
Eclipse. The ANT team would like to acheive a better level of ANT
integration.
An ANT view has
been developed by Roscoe Rush (http://freshmeat.net/projects/r2tech-eclipse-antview/?topic_id=46),
which is along the lines of integration we would like to achieve.
We believe a user should be able to do
these sorts of things:
* Display one
or more Ant scripts in a view which shows the targets, dependencies, and
(possibly) tasks, in a hierarchical tree
* Run a script or selected target(s) from the view
* Synchronize the Ant view with the associated file,
as it is edited
* Configure the
working directory and arguments associated with a script
* Configure which resources are refreshed after a
script is run (if any)
* Add/order
an ant script to be run as part a project's build process
We are currently in the design process,
and welcome input from the community.
Darin
