Compile time vs. run time evaluation

["Rousseau, John" <JR...@silverstream.com>]

Is there any way to have the "depends" attribute of the target be
evaluated at run time instead of compile time?

Even when I seperate the subtarget into another file, like...

build.xml:

<target name="init">
    <param name="targets" value="targ1,targ2" />
</target>

<target name="foo" depends="init">
   <ant antfile="targets.xml" target="bar" />
</target>


targets.xml

<target name="bar" depends="${targets} />



... it still complains about ${targets} not being defined. Is there
any way to do this with the current Ant?

Thanks!
-John

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Re: Compile time vs. run time evaluation

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

John Rousseau <JR...@silverstream.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to have the "depends" attribute of the target be
> evaluated at run time instead of compile time?

No ${} expansion in any attribute of <project> or <target> at the
moment, sorry. I'm going to propose top change this for Ant 1.3 - as
it pops up quite often.

Stefan