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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--build.xml generated by maven from project.xml version 0.1-dev
+  on date May 4 2006, time 2356-->
+
+<project default="jar" name="commons-csv" basedir=".">
+  <!--Load local and user build preferences-->
+
+  <property file="build.properties">
+  </property>
+  <property file="${user.home}/build.properties">
+  </property>
+  <!--Build properties-->
+
+  <property name="defaulttargetdir" value="${basedir}/target">
+  </property>
+  <property name="libdir" value="${user.home}/.maven/repository">
+  </property>
+  <property name="classesdir" value="${basedir}/target/classes">
+  </property>
+  <property name="testclassesdir" value="${basedir}/target/test-classes">
+  </property>
+  <property name="testreportdir" value="${basedir}/target/test-reports">
+  </property>
+  <property name="distdir" value="${basedir}/dist">
+  </property>
+  <property name="javadocdir" value="${basedir}/dist/docs/api">
+  </property>
+  <property name="final.name" value="commons-csv-0.1-dev">
+  </property>
+  <property name="proxy.host" value="">
+  </property>
+  <property name="proxy.port" value="">
+  </property>
+  <property name="proxy.username" value="">
+  </property>
+  <property name="proxy.password" value="">
+  </property>
+  <path id="build.classpath">
+    <pathelement location="${libdir}/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar">
+    </pathelement>
+  </path>
+  <target name="init" description="o Initializes some properties">
+    <mkdir dir="${libdir}">
+    </mkdir>
+    <condition property="noget">
+      <equals arg2="only" arg1="${build.sysclasspath}">
+      </equals>
+    </condition>
+    <!--Test if JUNIT is present in ANT classpath-->
+
+    <available property="Junit.present" classname="junit.framework.Test">
+    </available>
+    <!--Test if user defined a proxy-->
+
+    <condition property="useProxy">
+      <and>
+        <isset property="proxy.host">
+        </isset>
+        <not>
+          <equals trim="true" arg2="" arg1="${proxy.host}">
+          </equals>
+        </not>
+      </and>
+    </condition>
+  </target>
+  <target name="compile" description="o Compile the code" depends="get-deps">
+    <mkdir dir="${classesdir}">
+    </mkdir>
+    <javac destdir="${classesdir}" deprecation="true" debug="true" optimize="false" excludes="**/package.html">
+      <src>
+        <pathelement location="${basedir}/src/java">
+        </pathelement>
+      </src>
+      <classpath refid="build.classpath">
+      </classpath>
+    </javac>
+  </target>
+  <target name="jar" description="o Create the jar" depends="compile,test">
+    <jar jarfile="${defaulttargetdir}/${final.name}.jar" excludes="**/package.html" basedir="${classesdir}">
+    </jar>
+  </target>
+  <target name="clean" description="o Clean up the generated directories">
+    <delete dir="${defaulttargetdir}">
+    </delete>
+    <delete dir="${distdir}">
+    </delete>
+  </target>
+  <target name="dist" description="o Create a distribution" depends="jar, javadoc">
+    <mkdir dir="dist">
+    </mkdir>
+    <copy todir="dist">
+      <fileset dir="${defaulttargetdir}" includes="*.jar">
+      </fileset>
+      <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="LICENSE*, README*">
+      </fileset>
+    </copy>
+  </target>
+  <target name="test" description="o Run the test cases" if="test.failure" depends="internal-test">
+    <fail message="There were test failures.">
+    </fail>
+  </target>
+  <target name="internal-test" if="Junit.present" depends="junit-present,compile-tests">
+    <mkdir dir="${testreportdir}">
+    </mkdir>
+    <junit dir="${basedir}" failureproperty="test.failure" printSummary="yes" fork="true" haltonerror="true">
+      <sysproperty key="basedir" value=".">
+      </sysproperty>
+      <formatter type="xml">
+      </formatter>
+      <formatter usefile="false" type="plain">
+      </formatter>
+      <classpath>
+        <path refid="build.classpath">
+        </path>
+        <pathelement path="${testclassesdir}">
+        </pathelement>
+        <pathelement path="${classesdir}">
+        </pathelement>
+      </classpath>
+      <batchtest todir="${testreportdir}">
+        <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/test">
+          <include name="**/*Test*">
+          </include>
+        </fileset>
+      </batchtest>
+    </junit>
+  </target>
+  <target name="junit-present" unless="Junit.present" depends="init">
+    <echo>================================= WARNING ================================</echo>
+    <echo>Junit isn't present in your ${ANT_HOME}/lib directory. Tests not executed.</echo>
+    <echo>==========================================================================</echo>
+  </target>
+  <target name="compile-tests" if="Junit.present" depends="junit-present,compile">
+    <mkdir dir="${testclassesdir}">
+    </mkdir>
+    <javac destdir="${testclassesdir}" deprecation="true" debug="true" optimize="false" excludes="**/package.html">
+      <src>
+        <pathelement location="${basedir}/src/test">
+        </pathelement>
+      </src>
+      <classpath>
+        <path refid="build.classpath">
+        </path>
+        <pathelement path="${classesdir}">
+        </pathelement>
+      </classpath>
+    </javac>
+  </target>
+  <target name="javadoc" description="o Generate javadoc" depends="get-deps">
+    <mkdir dir="${javadocdir}">
+    </mkdir>
+    <tstamp>
+      <format pattern="2005-yyyy" property="year">
+      </format>
+    </tstamp>
+    <property name="copyright" value="Copyright &amp;copy;  . All Rights Reserved.">
+    </property>
+    <property name="title" value="Commons CSV 0.1-dev API">
+    </property>
+    <javadoc use="true" private="true" destdir="${javadocdir}" author="true" version="true" sourcepath="${basedir}/src/java" packagenames=".*">
+      <classpath>
+        <path refid="build.classpath">
+        </path>
+      </classpath>
+    </javadoc>
+  </target>
+  <target name="get-dep-junit.jar" description="o Download the dependency : junit.jar" unless="junit.jar" depends="init,setProxy,noProxy,get-custom-dep-junit.jar">
+    <mkdir dir="${libdir}/junit/jars/">
+    </mkdir>
+    <get dest="${libdir}/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar">
+    </get>
+  </target>
+  <target name="get-custom-dep-junit.jar" if="junit.jar" depends="init,setProxy,noProxy">
+    <mkdir dir="${libdir}/junit/jars/">
+    </mkdir>
+    <get dest="${libdir}/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="${junit.jar}">
+    </get>
+  </target>
+  <target name="get-deps" unless="noget" depends="get-dep-junit.jar">
+  </target>
+  <target name="setProxy" if="useProxy" depends="init">
+    <!--Proxy settings works only with a JDK 1.2 and higher.-->
+
+    <echo>Proxy used :</echo>
+    <echo>Proxy host [${proxy.host}]</echo>
+    <echo>Proxy port [${proxy.port}]</echo>
+    <echo>Proxy user [${proxy.username}]</echo>
+    <setproxy proxyuser="${proxy.username}" proxyport="${proxy.port}" proxypassword="${proxy.password}" proxyhost="${proxy.host}">
+    </setproxy>
+  </target>
+  <target name="noProxy" unless="useProxy" depends="init">
+    <echo>Proxy not used.</echo>
+  </target>
+  <target name="install-maven">
+    <get dest="${user.home}/maven-install-latest.jar" usetimestamp="true" src="${repo}/maven/maven-install-latest.jar">
+    </get>
+    <unjar dest="${maven.home}" src="${user.home}/maven-install-latest.jar">
+    </unjar>
+  </target>
+</project>
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