perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Maciej Glowiak wrote:
> Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> > Chris Welti wrote:
> > > Hi Maciej,
> > >
> > > Why don't you just add a check of the Ant version to the scripts and 
> > > only
> > > print the default values if the version is below 1.7.0?
> > Very nice idea. If its possible to do this.
I think I know how to this in a quite good way. I'll come back to this 
when I have finished my current tasks.

Roman

> Hi,
>
> I haven't found any ant task for checking ant version.
>
> We could use <exec> task and:
>
> 1. run "exec ant -version" in order to display for instance:
>    "Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006"
> 2. parse output somehow. There are no parsing tasks in ant,
>    so we should use another <exec> for sed or awk
> 3. check version
>
> 4. for each input we'd need to print out (or not) default option.
>
> The solution would not be scalable (points 1-3 should be inside a 
> shell/perl script) and a lot of conditions should be checked (one for 
> all input) - the code of scripts may become unclear.
>
> Or there is an ant task for checking version I missed?
>
> Maciej
>
>
> >