Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * allow sequence to be specified in depends attribute or enhance >> antcall to work with current list of executed targets > > I don't think we should guarantee sequence. If the sequence is > required, it can be set up but appropiate depends relationships. Not > sure what the issue is about antcall, I'll try to follow up the > dicussion.
I'm not arguing either side, just showing you the use-case for this request - and admitting that I don't know how to solve this. You have a target "clean" that does the usual cleanup and a target "build" that creates your product. "build" doesn't depend on "clean" as you want to be able to do incremental builds. "build" and "clean" both depend on a common and costly target named "shared". Now you want to make a clean build, how would you do that? Making a target that depends on "clean" and "build" could run "build" and then "clean", leaving you with no product at all. Running "ant clean build" or using two <antcall> tasks in sequence will run "shared" twice. Stefan
