Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant Console vs. Debug Console

[Jared Burns <jared-eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should add that as a replacement for the structured output pane, I'd like to 
just structure the output such that you can see where each message was 
generated. Something like so:
<bk> - black
<bl> - blue
<rd> - red

<bk><project: foo></bk>
  <bk><target: grah></bk>
    <bl>This is my output</bl>
  <bk><target: blah</bk>
    <rd>This is my error message<rd>

The benefit of this approach is that you can immediately see where the output 
was generated. For example, it's clear that "This is my output" was generated 
by the "grah" target.

- Jared

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:38 pm, Darin Wright wrote:
> I appreciate the feedback and requests we have received from 
> users/developers regarding Eclipse's Ant integration.
> 
> One of our goals is to combine the Log Console with the Debug Console 
> (thus, only having one console, and the ability to look at past output 
> from previously run Ant scripts). However, there are a couple of features 
> the Log Console supports that are not provided by the debug console:
> 
> * Structured Output: The log console provides a tree view of the output, 
> corresponding to Ant tasks. The debug console does not support structured 
> output.
> * Colored coded output for five message types (error, warning, 
> information, verbose, and debug). The debug console provides colors to 
> distinguish between standard error, out, and in.
> 
> Thus, I would like to hear from users if they actually use these features, 
> and if they would be missed. We do not neccessarily need to lose these 
> features - but adding these concepts to the generic debug console would be 
> more work. We need a way to prioritize the work.
> 
> Please note that one of our goals is to provide "hyper-links" from Ant 
> error output in the console, to the associated task in an editor. This 
> might be viewed as a replacement for determining which task error output 
> is associated with (if the tree view is used for that currently). As well, 
> we could provide links from information messages to associated tasks in an 
> editor.
> 
> I will also post this note to the newsgroup, where a wider audience may be 
> available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darin