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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Paul Spillman - Software Engineer - Sun UK <pa...@sun.com> on 2001/12/18 14:44:21 UTC
[Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Ignore what I said below. I didn't read what you was trying to do right.
:)
Can you not do something like:
<target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
weblogic"/>
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Paul Spillman - Software Engineer - Sun UK <pa...@sun.com>
To: Ant Developers List <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Dependency analysis
Date: 18 Dec 2001 13:38:08 +0000
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:17, Mark McMillan wrote:
>
>
> Now I want a another target that builds all our app-server specific code,
> "ant all". So the ALL target is defined like:
>
> <target name="all" depends="init, compile">
> ... do some prep work here...
> <antcall target="borland"/>
> <antcall target="weblogic"/>
> ...
> </target>
>
> I cannot just list "borland, weblogic" in the depends= property because I
> have to do some processing (specific to the ALL target) before those
> targets are run.
I've not seen the rest of this thread so please ignore if I'm talking
rubbish, but can you not just have something like this:
<target name="all" depends="init, compile">
baa
</target>
<target name="borland" depends="all">
baa
</target>
<target name="weblogic" depends="all">
black sheep
</target>
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Paul Philion <ph...@acmerocket.com>.
Mark,
Not to quibble, but (IMHO) that's one of the main points of declarative
systems. The developers declares the dependencies and the system is
responsible to figuring out how to make it happen correctly. Sure, it's a
little inside-out from a structural point of view, but it makes it easier to
maintain large, complex systems because each node is as independent as it
could be.
Just one developers opinion,
- Paul Philion
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McMillan" <ma...@engineous.com>
To: "Ant Developers List" <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
> Oh, I missed the extra dependency you added. Yes, I think that would
work,
> although I don't like the way it will make the build file very fragmented
> (for some one to figure out what ALL does, they have to find and examine
> each dependency rather than just read what is inside the ALL target). I
> prefer the clarity of the <do> task, but I see how it could be done just
> using dependencies.
>
> -Mark
>
> At 09:25 AM 12/18/01, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:49, Mark McMillan wrote:
> > >
> > > >Can you not do something like:
> > > >
> > > ><target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
> > > >weblogic"/>
> > >
> > > Almost, but if the 'all' target needs to do some processing before the
> > > 'borland' and 'weblogic' targets run, then it cannot do it.
> > >
> >
> >I was allowing for the extra processing in the 'prep_work' target. Would
> >that not work?
> >
> >
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>.
--- Mark McMillan <ma...@engineous.com> wrote:
> Oh, I missed the extra dependency you added. Yes, I think that would
> work, although I don't like the way it will make the build file very
> fragmented (for some one to figure out what ALL does, they have to find
> and examine each dependency rather than just read what is inside the
> ALL target). I prefer the clarity of the <do> task, but I see how it
> could be done just using dependencies.
Not trying to be argumentative, just wondering how having:
<antcall target="weblogic"/>
or even
<do target="weblogic"/>
says any more about what the "weblogic" target does than including it in
the list of depends would, or why having it that way would obviate the
need for someone to "find and examine" it to see what it does do.
Diane
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Mark McMillan <ma...@engineous.com>.
Oh, I missed the extra dependency you added. Yes, I think that would work,
although I don't like the way it will make the build file very fragmented
(for some one to figure out what ALL does, they have to find and examine
each dependency rather than just read what is inside the ALL target). I
prefer the clarity of the <do> task, but I see how it could be done just
using dependencies.
-Mark
At 09:25 AM 12/18/01, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:49, Mark McMillan wrote:
> >
> > >Can you not do something like:
> > >
> > ><target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
> > >weblogic"/>
> >
> > Almost, but if the 'all' target needs to do some processing before the
> > 'borland' and 'weblogic' targets run, then it cannot do it.
> >
>
>I was allowing for the extra processing in the 'prep_work' target. Would
>that not work?
>
>
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Erik Hatcher <ja...@ehatchersolutions.com>.
But the processing would go in the 'prep_work' target, that was the idea of
the example shown, rather than the 'all' target. See??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McMillan" <ma...@engineous.com>
To: "Ant Developers List" <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
>
> >Can you not do something like:
> >
> ><target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
> >weblogic"/>
>
> Almost, but if the 'all' target needs to do some processing before the
> 'borland' and 'weblogic' targets run, then it cannot do it.
>
> -Mark
>
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Paul Spillman - Software Engineer - Sun UK <pa...@sun.com>.
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:49, Mark McMillan wrote:
>
> >Can you not do something like:
> >
> ><target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
> >weblogic"/>
>
> Almost, but if the 'all' target needs to do some processing before the
> 'borland' and 'weblogic' targets run, then it cannot do it.
>
I was allowing for the extra processing in the 'prep_work' target. Would
that not work?
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Re: [Fwd: RE: Dependency analysis]
Posted by Mark McMillan <ma...@engineous.com>.
>Can you not do something like:
>
><target name="all" depends="init, compile, prep_work, borland,
>weblogic"/>
Almost, but if the 'all' target needs to do some processing before the
'borland' and 'weblogic' targets run, then it cannot do it.
-Mark
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