> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1. Ant does not provide built-in target dependency analysis -a > requirement for a scalable build system > > [This has no impact on build files, merely effort to write new tasks. We > do leave it to tasks, but they get to implement their own logic. Having > to implement it yourself adds work to the task developers, but they get > to write task specific rules. Like, for example, <jspc> knows the name > mangling rules to go from .jsp files to valid java source files, and ftp > knows about ftp sites and time zones.]
Target/file dependency analysis à-la make is available from Peter's excellent <outofdate> task which can be found in the Ant-Contrib SF.net project. (The term 'target analysis' is confusing in itself in the context of Ant, which has <target>s and correctly deals with their dependencies) --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
