+0 i've got no need for such a beast, and i don't really recommend much use of <antcall> either.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: Possible new task > This issue of running targets via <antcall> that have 'depends' set to the > same target(s) has come up a number of times. The usual workaround > suggestion is to have the common dependency(s) set a "<targetname>.done" > property and include an "unless" on it, but this isn't really a very > elegant solution. Mark McMillan has donated a <do> task, which allows you > to run other targets without re-running the common dependency(s) for each > called target. For example: > <target name="common"> > <echo message="Running common..."/> > </target> > > <target name="doit"> > <echo message="Do some tasks..."/> > <do target="t1"/> > <do target="t2"/> > </target> > > <target name="t1" depends="common"> > <echo message="In t1..."/> > </target> > > <target name="t2" depends="common"> > <echo message="In t2..."/> > </target> > > $ ant > doit: > [echo] Do some tasks... > > common: > [echo] Running common... > > t1: > [echo] Running t1... > > t2: > [echo] Running t2... > > I think this would be a useful task. The code is small, straightforward, > and wouldn't be likely to add any significant maintenance problems. Any > objections? > > Diane > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
