Right, I figured doFirst() wouldn't work, just tried it real quick. answer 1: I don't know what you mean by "why not set it right away?"
What I have is a task that normally operates a particular way. Currently, we can change its behavior with a -Pproject.uniqueVersion = true. However, people find this unintuitive, so I offered an option of having a separate task that hides setting the property. Users liked this idea. answer 2: no reason, that's just how I wrote it at that moment in time. I'll change it :) so what I gather is: gradle doesn't really support this sort of thing. I can search the task graph and find the task and call execute() I guess. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Peter Niederwieser <pnied...@gmail.com>wrote: > An action is always executed as part of the task that it has been added to. > Hence you'll have to call "doFirst {}" on task "uploadLocalizations". > > Two things that strike me: > > 1. Why do you set a project property to a constant value before some task > gets executed? Why not set it right away? > 2. Why do you use "setProperty" rather than setting the property directly > ("project.uniqueVersion = true")? > > -- > Peter Niederwieser > Principal Engineer, Gradleware > http://gradleware.com > Creator, Spock Framework > http://spockframework.org > Twitter: @pniederw > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/dependency-task-issue-tp4878218p4878271.html > Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >