Stefano,
Another message on this list from Bill Burton just mentioned the following:
<quote>
Hello,
<snip/>
Check out http://vpp.sourceforge.net/, a Velocity preprocessor. The
syntax will be a little different than CCP but it should do what you
want. With the <vppjavac> task, you can preprocess and compile in a
single step.
-Bill
</quote>
Perhaps this could help solve your problem as well?
Sean Reilly
Software Architect, Point2 Technologies, Inc.
(306) 955-1855
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: Ant Developers List
> Subject: Re: Javac task design problems
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 01:31
> Subject: Re: Javac task design problems
>
>
> > Conor MacNeill wrote:
> > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Build time went from 25 minutes to 5 minutes on my
> machine (a pentium
> > >> II 366 ronzputer). Other people experienced equivalent
> speedups and
> > >> everybody is joyful, singing and dancing and with
> renewed faith on
> > >> mankind.
> > >
> > >
> > > If you keep that up, the government will declare it illegal.
> >
> > LOL :)
> >
> > >>
> > >> The ideal solution to the problem (without requiring to filter
> > >> everything out would be)
> > >>
> > >> <copy todir="${build.src}" filtering="on">
> > >> <fileset dir="${src}">
> > >> <include name="**/Constants.java"/>
> > >> </fileset>
> > >> </copy>
> > >>
> > >> <javac destdir="${build.dest}">
> > >> <src>
> > >> <fileset dir="${src}">
> > >> <exclude name="**/Constants.java"/>
> > >> </fileset>
> > >> <path location="${build.src}"/>
> > >> </src>
> > >> </javac>
> > >>
> > >> too bad it doesn't work because the <javac> tasks
> assumes that each
> > >> file in its fileset is a directory!
> > >
> > >
> > > Not quite true, I think. The problem is more likely to
> come from javac
> > > itself since it will go looking for files based on the
> source paths.
> >
> > then how do the exclude/include work?
> >
> > > IOW, there is a disconnect between javac the task and javac the
> compiler.
> >
> > Did you guys ever thought about usign the Eclipse java
> compiler? It's
> > *very* nice, fast as hell and entirely embeddable and
> incremental. Plus
> > is IBM public license so its totally legal to redistribute with Ant.
> >
> > > Why not this:
> > > <javac destdir="${build.dest}">
> > > <src>
> > > <path location="${build.src}"/>
> > > <path location="${src}"/>
> > > </src>
> > > </javac>
> > >
> > > That should cause javac to pick up the changed files
> first and ignore
> > > the other copy in src. Well I haven't tried it, so YMMV ...
> >
> > Nop, tried that and doesn't work. Javac tries to compile
> both copies of
> > the file, complians about the duplication and fails.
>
> Why have Constants.java in the primary source tree at all?
> Keep it somewhere
> else, copy/filter/autocreate it in build/generated alongside
> all the castor,
> axis, and xdoclet generated source
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
