& only if (... was RE: JAR/FTP only if (or ) did anything)

[Adam Jack <aj...@openbiz.biz>]

Ok, so by commenting out my <manifest> for now I can reduce redundant JARs
and FTPs...

Any way to reduce redundant junits and/or javadocs? It seems (to me who is
no ant expert) that a property is the only way to carry context (such as
"nothing newly compiled") to things like junit (and perhaps javadoc, but...)
that can't really guess.

Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.

regards

Adam
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Adam Jack [mailto:ajack@openbiz.biz]
Sent:	Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:45 PM
To:	'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'
Subject:	JAR/FTP only if <javac> (or <depend>)  did anything

I have my ANT script compiling, JARing, and FTPing. Unfortunately I can't
seem to find a way to link the latter two to "only if a compile occurred".

I see that FTP will only upload if the timestamps indicate a need, so if I
could "only re-JAR if needed" I think I'd be in good shape. Unfortunately I
see that JAR will allow create a JAR file only if it does not exist, or one
can force an update, but I can't see how to "update only if one the contents
indicate a need". Is there a way?

Alternatively [and what seems ant-like, but I am no expert] I could use
<task "jarEmAllUp" if="" --- if I could set a property with number of
compiled files -- or if compile --- with <javac> or if I could do similarly
or <depend>. Does any such thing exist?

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

regards,

Adam
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Re: & only if (... was RE: JAR/FTP only if (or ) did anything)

[Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>]

--- Adam Jack <aj...@openbiz.biz> wrote:
> Any way to reduce redundant junits and/or javadocs? It seems (to me who
> is no ant expert) that a property is the only way to carry context
> (such as "nothing newly compiled") to things like junit (and perhaps
> javadoc, but...) that can't really guess.

See the <uptodate> task.

Diane

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