on 7/30/00 11:33 AM, Patrick Beard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > potentially different packages, letting the javac compiler sort > things out. Has anybody started working on an IDE or at least a tool > that generates ant build files? Seems like a good idea.
A tool that built ant files, displayed them in a tree, let particular targets be build with a highlight and a click would be really cool. Theres one that somebody started that's GPL. I was hoping that it could be mainstreamed into the codebase, but it can't with that license. :( > I've written a tool that lets you glue together multiple disjoint > directory hierarchies, and jar files (it's called jlink). I want to > integrate jlink into ant potentially. The one thing I'm trying to > understand is how to hook together dependencies. If the inputs to > jlink are a directory and a text file, how can I communicate those > dependencies so that ant won't rebuild the final target? Ant will call each task in the targets that get called -- it's the tasks themselves that have to decide whether or not to take action and not rebuild. .duncan
