Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 60338 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2000 16:19:22 -0000 Received: from pop.systemy.it (194.20.140.28) by 63.211.145.10 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2000 16:19:22 -0000 Received: from apache.org (pv22-pri.systemy.it [194.21.255.22]) by pop.systemy.it (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA00477 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:19:18 +0100 Message-ID: <3895AD8B.38A303F@apache.org> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:43:07 +0100 From: Stefano Mazzocchi Organization: Apache Software Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: javadoc/NT : Task not working References: <000f01bf6bcb$fa8d2370$3f994cd4@picturesafe.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wolfgang Werner wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm new to this list but using ant for a longer period of time. I found the > following (latest ant from CVS): > > javadoc - task is not working on NT. This is true because the NT commandshell > can (without extensions) only handle 9 parameters (see runant.bat). > > So the most needed parameters (packages/sourcefiles) are going to /dev/nul... > > One way to overcome this limitation would be to generate a special runtask > Batch (at invokation time) rather than relying to runant.bat. > > One of the key features of ant should be '100% pure java', to name it: The > ability > to work on every java supporting OS... This is Sam's fault, I think. Question: what's the point of going thru runant.bat anyway? before, I called javadoc directly from runtime.exec() and had no problems. This is why I patched Exec() to be able to "bypass" that shell wrapping. Sorry, but I miss that point. STefano.