I haven't read the whole thread yet, and I apologize for the top post, but I couldn't see that the discussion was heading for where I want to take it, so I couldn't stop myself any longer.
Parts of Ant were conceptually inherited from make, e.g. the common tendency for a buildfile to have an incremental build as its default. I think this is commonly the way people work, especially in TDD: as Geir and others said, you make one or ten changes, run 'ant', and whatever has changed is rebuilt. If you know you've made a change that might not get picked up properly (an example I think still applies is when you change a constant value and you want to be sure it's not inlined in any old classfiles), or you're ready for a release perhaps, you run 'ant clean build' (as opposed to 'ant clean; ant'--which also works at the cost of an extra JVM startup). All the makefiles I have ever seen approach the issue similarly; the fact that it is familiar to developers of whatever stripe suggests that it is a convention worth persisting if for that reason alone. $0.02, Matt --- Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15 June 2006 at 17:35, Geir Magnusson Jr > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope that no one really is bothered by that. > It's just so annoying :) > > > > If you are, feel free to put it back (or I will ) > and then lets discuss? > > Despite other comments on this thread, I'm glad > it's gone. I hate it > too. > > I do think that we should have a "dist" (or > something target that does > do "clean" and "build". (And we should make sure > this is consistent at > the module level.) > > -Mark. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]