On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:12, Steve Loughran wrote: > peter reilly wrote: > > I am thinking of committing the keep-alive > > feature: > > > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21144 > > > > Do any of the ant commiters have a problem with > > this feature? > >
> I am mostly neutral. I can see its value in some cases (install, but > think that it may lead to grief down the wire. The nice thing about > <try>/<catch> (that I do want to add to the core) is that it forces the > developers to think about failures and how to handle them. the keepgoing > concept says 'ignore all errors'; it is failoneerror scaled up. > Testing can be handled with the junit failureproperty, so it is really > installation and special test actions that are being handled. > Installations is very much a secondary function of ant. [And I prefer > installations to unroll cleanly on failure, not keep going] > > If you are going to commit it > -make it a command line option check > -lots of messages at both info and verbose, esp something at info that > warns when the system keeps going check > -make sure that try/catch logic takes priority It depends, the try/catch will catch tasks but not <ant/>, <antcall> and <subant/> (I think, I will test tonite). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
