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From: "Samson, Lyndon [IT]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: RE: depends vs. antcall
> Mebbe
>
> But the depends get called before the content of the task, sometimes you
> wanna
> set up some stuff first. Like properties or whatever.
So, set up a dependency to do the setup :-)
> You get a little more
> ability to fine tune using antcall. Ancall can also pass parms which make
> procedural thinkers like me happy :-)
>
What you are doing will work of course, but I feel that you may be missing
the expressive power of the dependency hierarchy. Try to leave the
procedural thinking aside for a moment and think about the structure of
your build. In the end it is up to you - if you are happy, who am I to
argue ...
Conor
