> > Could taskdefs be specified immediately. ie. move the main > > chunk of it from > > init to execute. This would allow a single build file to compile the > > taskdefs it needs and then use those in turn to do further > > processing. I > > have to run build twice to get this solved and it bugs the > > hell out of me :P. > > We have exactly the same situation (some custom tasks that need to be built > to make the main build work), so you can count this as a second vote ;)
Motion thirded. I use taskdefs for XSLT transforming and HTML mangling to build a website project that are very special-purpose, so it makes no sense to make them standard parts of Ant, but the two-step build process is annoying; takes away one of the main reason I use Ant in the first place and there's no technical reason it has to be that way--Java has all the runtime class information to compile, then add taskdefs. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
