RE: nontrivial dependencies

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Cepek
- Rainer Noack wrote: > just a hint: > what's about 's if/unless attributes... Both and certainly have their uses. And I don't hesitate to use them where it makes sense to do so. But I haven't found that they really help much with managing dependencies or other "tricky" aspects of our buil

RE: target dependencies

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Cepek
7;. Has anyone ever suggested some mechanism to enable this? Perhaps a command-line option for Ant, or an attribute to (and maybe as well)? As things are, any use of causes additional calls to dependent targets which usually don't need to be executed again. - Conor MacNeill wrote: Mich

nontrivial dependencies

2005-05-17 Thread Michael Cepek
I've been trying for a very long time now (many man-days) to create Ant build scripts to handle our new corporate project. I've been using Ant for over 3 years, and programming professionally for over 25 years. Despite all that, I cannot seem to get Ant to do what we need on this project. I am b

Re: target dependencies

2005-05-17 Thread Michael Cepek
This doesn't seem right to me. The "Using Ant" chapter of the "Ant User Manual" has always seemed pretty clear on the subject: "In a chain of dependencies stretching back from a given target [...] each target gets executed only once, even when more than one target depends on it."