Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 79340 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2001 02:31:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 79324 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2001 02:31:20 -0000 Message-ID: <004101c0eb0b$da745ac0$67f50e0f@c325042a> From: "Steve Loughran" To: References: <04da01c0eabd$ed70b900$7691070f@cv.hp.com> Subject: Re: Bad taste but... Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:29:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N And as a followup, I would like to draw everyones attention to a new article from the 'MSDN architectural samples team', which is 11 pages worth of details on how to automate building a win32/soap web service using VB script, a script that does nothing but increment a build counter, set up the properties (env variables), get the latest source from VSS then call build.bat files in subprojects in a manually coded dependency order Should we point to this in the 'how people used to build projects' section of the resources page :-) -Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Loughran" To: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Bad taste but... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Morrison, John" > To: > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 06:46 > Subject: RE: Bad taste but... > > > > I'd assumed that it was a local thing. Speaking personally, I'd consign > VB > > to the same place as the empties. Unfortunately, the PTBs are dictating > > otherwise :( > > > > I've managed to fudge this using exec, but a task would have been better! > > > > J. > > > > I was debating adding a vbc task to go with csc in the .net tools; .net does > provide a command line invocation of the compiler, whereas for VB6 and below > you need to invoke the IDE with various parameters. > > But I decided against it on ethical grounds: anything that made VB easier to > work with would only encourage people to use it. > > -steve > >