Apache ANT

by **length** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:01 am

Is there any light in the tunnel for Apatana to include Apache ANT in the distro?

This would be HUGE for people in teams and using SVN.

I apprecate I can use it when I have Eclipse and Aptana as a plugin, but the installed version of Aptana, for me at least, is more stable and has some things I like with the installer.

by **ingo** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:44 pm

Hi Length,

I checked, and the ANT plugin relies on the JDT for at least the UI portion. Is there a particular piece of ANT we could include? Alternately, you can drag all of those pieces over from Eclipse into an Aptana install, but that might be too much.

Thoughts?
Ingo

by **length** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:59 pm

I can only tell you what I use in the regular Eclipse, as I dont know too much about the workings and how the dependancies fall together.

I create a project called ANT, and add in some XML files there, with my ant scripts in.

Then using the builders option in a projects properties, add in specific variables and then use the run button to execute the specific script. Or trigger it with a hot key.

An example would be http://www.webdevref.com/blog/index.cfm ... A23FF93A8B compiling cf code with ANT.

Does that help answer this for you? what other information can I give you?

by **ingo** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:55 pm

No--that helps immensely. I'm not 100% positive if we can strip out the pieces of the JDT (Java Development Tools) and keep all of the pieces that using ANT in this way requires.

I've added a Trac item for it for now, but I think there may be an alternate approach where we use the internal scripting engine of Aptana.

http://www.aptana.com/trac/ticket/4206#preview

For the moment, the best workaround is to use Aptana as a plugin to Eclipse, but I understand why you'd prefer not to do that.

Best,
Ingo

by **length** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:22 pm

are you saying that Eclipse Monkey will replace ANT

--or--

you can use it to help implement ANT within aptana?

by **aqlong** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:16 pm

I'd love to see it in the distro, too. Thanks!

by **thecrumb** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:51 pm

I know this is old - but I'd like to add my vote for Ant support?

by **kRON** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:07 pm

My problem is that I want to try and install PDT as a plug-in for Aptana Studio. I'm missing Ant as one of the dependent plug-ins for installing WST, and the only distribution I can find it in is in the Eclipse platform update which later crashes Aptana Studio. Anyone had any luck :cry:

?

by **mpetersen** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:48 pm

Hi kRON,

Most people who are using PDT and Studio together install them both into Eclipse as plug-ins. There are a few issues with PHP support when using these two plug-ins together, but for the most part, they "play nice" with each other.

Thanks,
Michelle

Apache ANT

Apache ANT

me too!

Another vote for Ant support