> Hi, > > Both Conor and KC seem to be not so keen on the 'private' flag > for targets. > What are your objections?
Well, it is not a strong objection. To me, however, it increases the complexity of build files just to support the targets option. Even if I don;t use the option I have to keep in my head what a private flag means on a target. > > I've tried my patch on ant's own build.xml with this result: > > Buildfile: build.xml > Targets: > -install > -dist-tgz > -dist > -dist-zip > -compile > -fullinstall > -get.snapshot > -javadocs > -check_for_optional_packages > -total-clean > -bootstrap > -main > -jar > -prepare > -compiletests > -clean > -make.snapshot > -runtests > > I definitely miss a description for each target but it would also be very > useful if something like 'check_for_optional_packages' was filtered out > Why would that be very useful? How are you going to be using these lists? Conor
