Ant script "dry-run" testing

[Michael Cook <ML...@aJile.com>]

Is it possible to have Ant do a 'dry-run' of a script without actually
executing the target actions, but just to see what targets would be run,
maybe with value substitutions?

This was possible with some versions/variations of 'make'.  The '-n'
or '--dry-run' options allow 'make' to tell what it would do without
really doing it, so some debugging could be done without harm to
existing files, etc.

I didn't see anything like this in the Ant manual.

Is this possible?  Will it be part of Ant 2?

Thanks,

Michael L. Cook
Technical Staff
aJile Systems, Inc.      http://www.aJile.com/



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