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Correct Product/Component - Eclipse, Ant Support. If they're in the lists, I certainly can't be assed finding them! Ant support is a great feature but a couple of things make it hard. Firstly, it doesn't seem to detect the installed JDK and instead requires pointing to tools.jar - which I believe is a deprecated way to get a compiler. The second and more important problem is the triggering of the script. The options don't allow for the script to be run before a debugging session. It also fails to fire before an automatic build - if nothing is built then the script does not run. This unfortunately renders it useless to me as I need to know my external build tools are being run before a debug/run regardless of whether anything has changed within my project. ...and it's a total PITA to manually build in an IDE that doesn't have a BUILD BUTTON on the toolbar! :-\ PS none of this would be necessary if there were pre/post-build steps or if I could use relative paths for locating things. You guys might be going for the most 'outside the box' design for an IDE but there *are* reasons that every other IDE has these things. ;-) -- Configuration Details -- Product: Eclipse 1.3.1.20100913-1228 (org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product) Installed Features: org.eclipse.jdt 3.6.1.r361_v20100714-0800-7z8XFUSFLFlmgLc5z-Bvrt8-HVkH
Does this relate to Platform Ant project?
(In reply to comment #0) > doesn't seem to detect the installed JDK and instead requires pointing to > tools.jar - which I believe is a deprecated way to get a compiler. > Ant does correctly detect the installed JRE, as does the external tools support. How are you launching / running your scripts? > The second and more important problem is the triggering of the script. The > options don't allow for the script to be run before a debugging session. It > also fails to fire before an automatic build - if nothing is built then the > script does not run. This unfortunately renders it useless to me as I need to > know my external build tools are being run before a debug/run regardless of > whether anything has changed within my project. > Did you check the Console view? All output from external tools builders is sent there - basically it is the Ant (org.apache.ant) output. > > PS none of this would be necessary if there were pre/post-build steps or if I > could use relative paths for locating things. You guys might be going for the > most 'outside the box' design for an IDE but there *are* reasons that every > other IDE has these things. ;-) > Eclipse supports that as well, relative paths of course being dependent on your current working directory. We also have variables that can be used.
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