On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pardon my top posting, but the layout below is (at least for me) confusing. > It looks like Assaf Arkin has answered his own question and asked another. > Could people use the long established convention of preceding quoted lines > with "> " or "| ", please?
Sorry about that. It reads fine in HTML, but for some reason don't get translated in the plain text sent along with the email, so I switched to plain text. > > As far as I can see there is no command line option to tell rake that certain > tasks are considered up to date, so don't need executing. ISTR Gnu make > can do that, so maybe split the rakefile, and invoke using gnu make? There's > probably a better answer, though. Shouldn't the be the responsibility of the task? A task can decide if it needs executing and return true/false from needed?(). Assaf > > Hugh > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Assaf Arkin wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Assaf Arkin wrote: >> >> How can I stop invocation of dependent >> tasks? By raising an exception >> from the prerequisite action? >> >> >> If the task fails, raise an exception. That will just bubble up >> and get Rake to dump the exception and stop executing. >> >> Is there a way for a dependent task to ignore failures in the >> dependency tasks? >> >> >> You can invoke the dependent task directly and just catch the error. >> >> Assaf >> >> >> >> >> -- Assaf >> http://labnotes.org >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> Ittay >> _______________________________________________ >> Rake-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> Rake-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel >> >> >> -- -- >> Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rake-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rake-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
