Comments on: Ant help target

By: Nick Grealy

Nick Grealy — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:03:43 +0000

Just a minor addition, I had to add the "path" to ANT.

By: Durban_legend

Durban_legend — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:19:49 +0000

Thanks Frank. In support of your comment/premise, not everybody has time for training courses or learns all the basics before the more advanced stuff they need. I’ve used Ant to do lots of useful and funky stuff in the past, and I didn’t know about this. Nor did the people who created most (if not all) of the Ant files I’ve borrowed or inherited. And if the author doesn’t know to put descriptions in, “ant -projecthelp” won’t be of much use to anyone. I thought there must be a better way, and Google brought me here, and you helped me out. Schlumpf, why are you wasting your precious time here? Get back to work! (especially if you’re still here nearly 5 years later) .

By: Rasmus Kaj

Rasmus Kaj — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:17:18 +0000

A help target that merges “ant -p” output with other top-level information (or possibly just have a description on the project, and display that together with the target descriptions). If there was a sane formatting, so long descriptions — even multi-paragraph descriptions — would be readable in ant -p output, this would actually be useful …

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:29:36 +0000

I bet a lot of ant users don’t know about -projecthelp. IIRC I used it for quite some time before I found out. Anyway, if it’s no extra effort why not provide an additional ‘help’ target.

By: schlumpf

schlumpf — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:12:52 +0000

who doesn’t know he can call “ant -projecthelp” from the commandline to get help shouldn’t be allowed to use ant anyway…