On 2009-12-14, Antoine Levy Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: > I have never thought about how this could be implemented and how much > work it is. It is probably a non-trivial addition because it means > that the list of targets to execute and their order will change > dynamically during the build depending upon how properties evaluate at > run time.
If you made it fully dynamic, yes, and there are probably a lot of edge cases to consider. In your construct > <target name="foo" depends="bar" deep-if="someproperty"/> when would you evaluate someproperty? Before bar is scheduled? If you evaluate it when foo is about to execute it will be too late since bar has already been run. If we restricted deep-if to properties/conditions that can be evaluated at parser time, then the dependency tree wouldn't change at runtime and such a change wouldn't have as big an impact as a truely dynamic solution. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
