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[platform-ant-dev] How to use Ant functionality in recent builds?
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Hi,
I have problems with the new AntView functionality in recent builds.
Here is my use case:
I'm helping to port Eclipse to Mac OS X, and I'm working on several
other plugins.
Since I try to be self hosted on any new development quite
frequently, I have to export various plugins or dlls. For this I'm
running a small number of targets (about 2) in a small number of
Ant-scripts (3-4).
Before the Ant overhaul I could just select the Ant-script and choose
the right target from the dialog and press OK. This was not perfect,
because I always got the dialog, but dismissing it was not a big deal.
This seems to have changed in recent builds dramatically:
- there is still a "Run Ant.." action in the context menu but I don't
get the dialog to pick a target (so the ellipses seems to be wrong).
- there is an AntView which shows me some of my Ant files (only the
ones that match a name configured on a preference page), however I'm
not really interested in all the targets and Ant files that I never
use. But I want to see some Ant files with different names without
having to go to the preference page.
In addition, running a target does not automatically switch to the
console, so I don't get any feedback what is happening.
- I tried to use the "External Tools..." toolbar action. However, I
could not configure it to get different configurations for different
targets in the same Ant-script.
So what I would like to be able to do is:
- configure a few 'Ant configurations' for different targets in the
same or different Ant-file which I can access easily from the 'Run
External Tools' toolbar drop down menu.
- I'm not interested in browsing Ant-files after the initial setup,
so I don't need the AntView.
- an alternative would be to have a dynamic context menu entry that
lists the available targets.
Is any of this possible?
Thanks for any help,
--andre