> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: Jose Alberto Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Hummm, this looks like a foreach to me. Or more exactly > > using the new <for/> task of antcontrib (which I think it should be > > candidate to the 3rd party task of the year award). "Find all the > > target names into a property and then use for to execute > the antcalls: > > > > <for param="target" list="${test.targets}> > > <sequential> > > <antcall target="@{target}"/> > > </sequential> > > </for> > > Hmmm, you have to pay the expense of an <antcall>, > which is significant in speed but especially in memory, > and then you must be careful of property/reference > inheritance, and bypass the static target analysis. >
I could give you several diferent ways to acomplish this, although it seems to me your concerns about <antcall/> usage are a redhearing. > > I use a script to look at target names and get those of my interest. > > Thus you need a scripting language and bsf and write a script > to look up target names... I'm not that fond of such a solution. > No, it means that you can write a regular task in whatever way you want that can give you the names of the targets you are interested in. There is no need to add things to CORE. > > In other words, it seems all you may want to do can be done > with the > > available tasks. > > Without going to Perl-extremes, sometimes having multiple > ways to do something is a good thing, especially when one way > is in the fact very convoluted, requires lots of external > tasks/code, and the other way is cleaner, faster, uses less > memory, and is built-in without any external dependencies. > ANT is about extensibility, you can write your own tasks to do whatever, you do not need to change the core for it. I really think that before changing the syntax of the language we need to see if what we have can fulfill the need. Jose Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
