Stefan,

I will follow up with the people at exolab for the castor task.
I will follow up with the creator of the p4 task for p4add.
I don't really agree with you on the conditional. I am already using the
available task for resources (the same way you just mentioned). The
conditional tasks works on targets. A target fails if it raises a
BuildException.
Then you can construct complex branching mechanism based on target success
and not on available resources (totally different things).

Olivier

Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> Olivier Brand <olivier@intraware.com> wrote:
>
> > I am new to the list. I have created 3 tasks and was wondering what
> > was the process of adding these tasks into ant (if everybody agrees
> > of course that these tasks are useful).
>
> Send them to the list and lobby for their inclusion - may take some
> time to get heard 8-)
>
> > The first task allows to generate an XML Java binding framework
> > using Castor from exolab (www.exolab.org).
>
> This sounds as if it should be included with Castor, not with Ant -
> with a link from <http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/external.html> of
> course.
>
> > The second task can be added to the already existing Perforce
> > package: P4Add. This allows to add a file to a Perforce depot (we
> > needed this feature in our project).
>
> This one probably has a really good chance of being included if it
> fits into the P4 classes already present.
>
> > The third task is a conditional task on targets, it allows to
> > express conditions like: if/then/else on targets.  For example using
> > Perforce, we wanted to add a file in our depot. If the file does not
> > exist, we need to add it (P4Add). Otherwise we need to edit it
> > (P4Edit).  This task allows to do that : if targetA fails then
> > execute targetB else execute targetC. Of course the test can be
> > changed (it is a parameter: true or false).
>
> I don't think this would find too many friends among the committers.
> How do you know whether a target fails?
>
> The normal Ant way would be a combination of available and a couple of
> targets, something like
>
> <target name="check">
>   <available file="${file.to.check}" property="exists" />
> </target>
>
> <target name="add" depends="check" unless="exists">
>   <p4add ...>
> </target>
>
> <target name="edit" depends="check" if="exists">
>   <p4edit ...>
> </target>
>
> <target name="add-or-edit" depends="add,edit" />
>
> and then use them via something like
>
> <antcall target="add-or-edit">
>   <param name="file.to.check" location="your-file-name-here" />
> </antcall>
>
> Stefan