Re: Multiple builds and failures

2000-12-21 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 12/20/00 1:46 PM, "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ant's general philosohpy to date has been to fail quickly. If there is some > problem, Ant does not try to limp along. You fix it and build again. If you > want that changed, it would be best to get involved in the Ant-Dev > discu

Re: Multiple builds and failures

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Burton
Hi Dave, Ant doesn't have anything like make -k letting you continue despite errors. If you are really stuck and willing to hack the code a bit, the class taskdefs/Ant.java which implements could be modified to take a new attribute failonerror (like the exec task) where the default is true. Wh

Re: Multiple builds and failures

2000-12-20 Thread Conor MacNeill
David, Ant's general philosohpy to date has been to fail quickly. If there is some problem, Ant does not try to limp along. You fix it and build again. If you want that changed, it would be best to get involved in the Ant-Dev discussions about Ant's future direction. > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Multiple builds and failures

2000-12-20 Thread David . Bailey
Howdy. I'm building my way down a directory tree using build.xml files in every subdirectory and a chain of tasks in each build.xml. I believe I have to do it this way because certain subdirectories need special handling, and I only want to make changes (when they are necessary) in a single