[platform-ant-dev] How to use Ant functionality in recent builds?

[Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have problems with the new AntView functionality in recent builds.

Here is my use case:
I'm helping to port Eclipse to Mac OS X, and I'm working on several 
other plugins.
Since I try to be self hosted on any new development quite 
frequently, I have to export various plugins or dlls. For this I'm 
running a small number of targets (about 2) in a small number of 
Ant-scripts (3-4).

Before the Ant overhaul I could just select the Ant-script and choose 
the right target from the dialog and press OK. This was not perfect, 
because I always got the dialog, but dismissing it was not a big deal.

This seems to have changed in recent builds dramatically:

- there is still a "Run Ant.." action in the context menu but I don't 
get the dialog to pick a target (so the ellipses seems to be wrong).

- there is an AntView which shows me some of my Ant files (only the 
ones that match a name configured on a preference page), however I'm 
not really interested in all the targets and Ant files that I never 
use. But I want to see some Ant files with different names without 
having to go to the preference page.
In addition, running a target does not automatically switch to the 
console, so I don't get any feedback what is happening.

- I tried to use the "External Tools..." toolbar action. However, I 
could not configure it to get different configurations for different 
targets in the same Ant-script.


So what I would like to be able to do is:
- configure a few 'Ant configurations' for different targets in the 
same or different Ant-file which I can access easily from the 'Run 
External Tools' toolbar drop down menu.
- I'm not interested in browsing Ant-files after the initial setup, 
so I don't need the AntView.
- an alternative would be to have a dynamic context menu entry that 
lists the available targets.

Is any of this possible?

Thanks for any help,
--andre