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From: Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com>
To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Returning CAB file support to ANT
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:31:20 -0400
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one option is to re-factor Cab.java into a Ant Taskdef
https://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html
give a shout if you need any help creating Taskdef for Cab
v/r
Martin=20
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> Date: Fri=2C 1 Apr 2016 23:06:41 -0600
> Subject: Returning CAB file support to ANT
> From: garym@oedata.com
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
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> Hi
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> I'm new to ant and need to have M$ cab file support for a project.
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> I noticed cab.java is still in the source tree and the cab.class is still
> building=2C  however=2C the cab .jar is not.
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> I'm assuming cab support was removed due to M$ EOL their Cabinet SDK and
> cabarc.exe utility cab.java requires.
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> I'd like to uplift cab file support and convert cabarc.exe utility to M$'=
s
> MakeCab.exe utility.
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> I'd like some suggestions about adding cab support to build.xml and how t=
o
> place the uplifted files back into ant's distribution.
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> v/r
> gary
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