Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 70750 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2000 22:58:23 -0000 Received: from smtp.thespot.com.au (203.63.78.43) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 20 Aug 2000 22:58:23 -0000 Received: from monkey.prod.thespot.com.au (monkey.prod.thespot.com.au [172.16.33.10]) by smtp.thespot.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24639 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:55:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by monkey.prod.thespot.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7KMwST07599 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:58:28 +1000 (EST) Received: from UNKNOWN(192.168.1.32), claiming to be "snotty" via SMTP by monkey, id smtpdAAAEiaGTo; Mon Aug 21 08:58:23 2000 From: "Conor MacNeill" To: Subject: RE: Rationale for 'help' as non-standard option? Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:58:32 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <39A00121.7F7FCB4C@acm.org> X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Jim, > -----Original Message----- > From: quelle@acm.org [mailto:quelle@acm.org] > Sent: Monday, 21 August 2000 2:03 > To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org > Subject: Rationale for 'help' as non-standard option? > > > Naturally, on picking up ANT, one of my first targets was name="help". > Line 122 in Main.java 1.1 prevents this > from being parsed as a target ("if (arg.equals("-help") || > arg.equals("help"))"). > > It seemed to me that option "-help" should give info about ANT, and > target "help" should give info about the > buildfile in use. What am I missing? ... the latest version from CVS. The "help" option was recently removed. Conor