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 64508 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 04:21:19 -0000 Received: from latcs2.cs.latrobe.edu.au (root@131.172.42.22) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 04:21:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (pjdonald@localhost) by latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07546 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:21:11 +1000 From: donaldp@mad.scientist.com X-Authentication-Warning: latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU: pjdonald owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:21:11 +1000 (EST) X-Sender: pjdonald@latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFE] Default Help target on error ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, James Duncan Davidson wrote: > I wouldn't call it a "feature" -- more like "hmm, lets make this as user > friendly as possible" and not thinking it through :) :P > What about: > > ant -help (how to use ant) > ant -projecthelp (how to use this project, grabs description from xml > > Sample xml: > > ..snip... looks good ... Very good even :P > Of course then you could have a whole discussion about what line endings > mean, is the internal text in HTML format, etc... I really don't have an > opinion on that -- but I do think that this general idea is good. yup as long as you can get the help from command line then everything is right as rain :P Cheers, Pete *--------------------------------------------------* | Latrobe University, | | | Bundoora, Australia | Does the name 'Pavlov' | | Office: PW220 | ring a bell ? | | Ex: 2503 | | *--------------------------------------------------*