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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> on 2004/01/07 18:21:19 UTC

RE: [PATCH] Support for default ProjectHelper to expand propertie s in attributes to project/target tags

> > Actually the new <for> task uses a <macrodef> type
> > approach to avoid the <antcall>.
> 
> Maybe Matt, but remember I want to call a target
> after all.
> That's what the depends attribute does, albeit
> without
> creating a new project.
> 
> There still is the <call> thingy, but I'm not fond
> of it...

Not sure what <call> thingy you're talking about...
again, from what Peter tells me, the new <for> works
like <foreach> except without creating a new project.

-Matt

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Re: [PATCH] Support for default ProjectHelper to expand propertie s in attributes to project/target tags

Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.
ah, yes... even better.  :)  hard to keep all the
permutations straight.  When is all that stuff going
to be apparent from the ant-contrib site?

-Matt

--- Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com> wrote:
> Matt Benson wrote:
> 
> >>>Actually the new <for> task uses a <macrodef>
> type
> >>>approach to avoid the <antcall>.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Maybe Matt, but remember I want to call a target
> >>after all.
> >>That's what the depends attribute does, albeit
> >>without
> >>creating a new project.
> >>
> >>There still is the <call> thingy, but I'm not fond
> >>of it...
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Not sure what <call> thingy you're talking about...
> >again, from what Peter tells me, the new <for>
> works
> >like <foreach> except without creating a new
> project.
> >  
> >
> Not quite, it does not call targets, but it does run
> the
> contents of the sequential block for each value of
> the parameter.
> Peter
> 
> >-Matt
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Re: [PATCH] Support for default ProjectHelper to expand propertie s in attributes to project/target tags

Posted by Peter Reilly <pe...@corvil.com>.
Matt Benson wrote:

>>>Actually the new <for> task uses a <macrodef> type
>>>approach to avoid the <antcall>.
>>>      
>>>
>>Maybe Matt, but remember I want to call a target
>>after all.
>>That's what the depends attribute does, albeit
>>without
>>creating a new project.
>>
>>There still is the <call> thingy, but I'm not fond
>>of it...
>>    
>>
>
>Not sure what <call> thingy you're talking about...
>again, from what Peter tells me, the new <for> works
>like <foreach> except without creating a new project.
>  
>
Not quite, it does not call targets, but it does run the
contents of the sequential block for each value of the parameter.
Peter

>-Matt
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