Re: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Timothy Wall
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: From: Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 3:05 PM 1)The regular Target dependency tree This, it should be noted, is really no different from make. It can just be difficult to line up features betw

Re: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Timothy Wall
On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Martin wrote: Tim/Mike It appears we have 2 items here 1)The regular Target dependency tree 2)Targets which should be executed everytime the Project build is invoked. Does Ant have a mechanism for ALWAYS executing specified targets everytime the Project

Re: AW: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Timothy Wall
Thanks. That's a reasonable description, that should probably be up front in the Ant docs somewhere. Unfortunately, it raises the bar for actually using "up-to-date" since you have to write a new task to get it. Does a target get noted as "not run" if all of its tasks decide they are up to d

RE: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 3:05 PM > 1)The regular Target dependency tree This, it should be noted, is really no different from make. It can just be difficult to line up features between the two. > 2)Targets which should be executed every

RE: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: Mike Ayers > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:02 AM > > What is the canonical "Only create this directory if it > > doesn't exist" > > rule? > > There may not be a canonical form, but this will work: > > > > > This was incorrect - noone noticed? I just cau

Re: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution

2003-02-18 Thread Martin
? -Martin - Original Message - From: "Mike Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: RE: Conditional target execution based on prerequisite execution > From: Timothy Wall [mailto