Two more things that came to my mind.
It would be nice to have more flexibility
in respect of the dependencies between the targets.
I got the following problem.
I have a target which checks out a cvs repository
and compiles it.
Now I want to be able to tell the user whether the files
in the cvs repository contain errors by sending him an e-mail.
I have found no way to do this with ant. Because there is no
flag telling me if another target finished successfully or not.
I tried to build a workaround by setting a property but the problem
is that I can't override properties and properties defined inside
a target seem to be local, I can't use them in other targets.
The next thing is that the if-clause of the target only checks if the
property is set but not to what value.
I put a sample xml file at the end of this mail.
Greetings Thomas
<!--
===================================================================
Check if contents of CVS repository compiles
===================================================================
-->
<target name="cvs-check" if="cvs.user">
<property name="cvs-check.succeeded" value="false" />
<antcall target="cvs-check-sub" />
<echo message="${cvs-check.succeeded}" />
<antcall target="cvs-check-succeeded" />
<antcall target="cvs-check-failed" />
</target >
<target name="cvs-check-sub" depends="build-clean" if="cvs.user">
<property name="cvs-check.succeeded" value="true" />
<echo message="${cvs-check.succeeded}" />
</target >
<target name="build-clean" if="cvs.user">
<tstamp/>
<!-- Dateien vom letzten Check wegwerfen -->
<!--
<delete dir="${cvs-check.src.dir}" />
<delete dir="${cvs-check.build.dir}" />
-->
<!-- Verzeichnisse erzeugen, die fuer den Check benoetigt werden. -->
<!--
<mkdir dir="${cvs-check.src.dir}" />
<mkdir dir="${cvs-check.build.dir}" />
-->
<!--
<cvs command="-d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${cvs.repository}
checkout -P -d '${cvs-check.src.dir}' src" />
-->
<javac srcdir="${cvs-check.src.dir}"
destdir="${cvs-check.build.dir}"
>
</javac >
</target >
<target name="cvs-check-succeeded" if="cvs-check.succeeded">
<echo message="Sources in cvs repository compiled without errors." />
</target >
<target name="cvs-check-failed" unless="cvs-check.succeeded">
<echo message="Sources in cvs repository contain errors." />
</target >
