Re: kawa 1.6.92 released

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

At 01:52 PM 6/11/2001 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>It's not that easy. '@if CHAR is bytefoo@ does not do token substitution;
>if does a cpp-style conditional, similar to #if CHAR_is_byte.  Thus
>all the lines from the @if to the next @endif may need to be removed.

OIC.  Well, I'll come with something.  It is a little ugly, but I've done 
similar sorts of Ant text processing using JavaScript and the standard Java 
classes for file I/O.  Tasks can also be implemented in Java and added to 
Ant as a jar.

> > Note also that Ant has scripting capability (I use Rhino for
> > JavaScript right now which can use any Java class directly) and of
> > course Ant can call any system command desired, so there is no
> > practical limitation on what it can do.
>
>But can we assume that a random Windows-9x box will have the necessary
>system commands?  We can presumably run different system commands on
>Unix, Ms-Windows, and Mac, but this is certainly to be avoided!

The idea is to not depend on any system commands other than the Java VM and 
the compilers (javac, jikes, gcj - actually Ant can invoke javac's main 
class directly so it isn't technically a system command).  Ant already has 
tasks for cvs, ftp, jar, tar, zip, chmod, copy, move, mkdir, etc, 
implemented in Java.

I haven't looked at the details yet, but I pretty much assume building and 
deploying Kawa has no need of any system commands (as the sed processing 
can be done elsewise, of course sed in Java would be a cool tool and be a 
handy Ant task too).

jim