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From: "Remy Maucherat" <rmaucher1@home.com>
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Subject: Re: New Ant Target for TC4
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:42:20 -0700
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> First of all, Remy, great work on the new build stuff. I particularly like
the
> output at the beginning, where it reports which jars it found.

Thanks, Chritopher.

> It's so useful, in fact, that I think it deserves its own target for
several
> reasons ("detect" maybe?).

Ok, I'll do that. 'detect' looks fine to me. It's not exposed by the top
level build script at the moment, but I'll add that.

> First, it scrolls offscreen really quickly, and it's
> hard to scroll back up during a build. Second, it would sometimes be nice
to
> see what is getting detecting without actually doing a build (if you are
> setting up a new development environment from scratch, for example). Also,
it
> would be a great debugging tool for answering user build questions, since
one
> could have them simply run the "detection" target and verify that
everything is
> set up right.

Remy