Wouldn't it be comfortable to have an option which shows the user all available tasks from a build file in a numbered menu. Targets which the users wants to be processed should be entered by the corresponding number(s), comma seperated. Hit enter and the taks will be processed. As easy as that. No more searching and copy&pasting from the build file itself.
1. lots of the ant gui tools do this, such as the netbeans, eclipse and idea IDEs 2. ant -p lists all targets, or, if you add a description tag to them, it lists only the public ones. surely these two should be sufficent. Yes?
1. ant gui tools... could be, but not everyboy prefers to use 'm 2. ant -p lists all targets... then there is only more step to take
I'm not convinced...
There's also http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion though it's not very robust (e.g. doesn't handle -f nor <import>).