Hi Conor, > This is a topic that comes up reasonably often. There is some question > about whther it is just better to do a clean build using a fast compiler > such as Jikes. I still need to do some tests on real world builds to see > if that is true. I have made a submission in the past which analysed > class file dependencies and used this to grow the list of files to be > compiled. After the 1.2 release of ant is out of the way, I plan to have > another look at using that.
Great, then I'll wait for that. May I ask how you analyzed the dependencies between the classes? I did some quick thinking and it occurred to me that the easiest way to do this is to look at the symbol tables of the actual class files. Is that how your submission worked? Matthijs
