Yes it is possible to make a hierarchial build system using ant. There is a built
in task called ant that allows you to specify an ant build
script as well as the target within that script to run.
Does this result in a new javac process each time? Additionally, does
this mean that one would
Title: RE: Building a hirechial build system
Does this result in a new javac process each time? Additionally, does
this mean that one would need to define new targets for each
directory
in the main build.xml file?
No, the ant task does not fork a new VM which is good because if one
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Atul V. Setlur wrote:
Yes it is possible to make a hierarchial build system using ant. There is a built
in task called ant that allows you to specify an ant build
script as well as the target within that script to run.
Does this result in a new javac process each
Alternatively, is there a way of automating the search so that the
contents of the build.xml files in the sub directory be
included in the
appropriate targets? For instance, if I want to exclude a
particular
package from being included in compilation then I would
probably want to
Title: RE: Building a hirechial build system
Going back to my question, I was wondering if the list of
include and
exclude could be built dynamically by searching in all the sub
directories of a project and including these rules when they exist in
the xml files that exist
