YES YES YES YES YES!!! I strongly agree with Jesse's comment.
XML is a data language, not a programming language. If you have an ANT
script that needs to say "if" then you should use more than one build.xml!
Keep Ant Simple so that that it continues to be useful.
Jason Henriksen
Am I the only person that thinks conditional flow control using XML is just
a Bad Thing(tm)? Flow control == processing and we already have excellent
processing languages.
A target is a "piece of work". If that piece of work depends on other
pieces of work, we define that in dependencies. Everything in this design
is pass/fail, Like a transaction. If/unless attempts to add a tiered
conditional process tree on top of this pass/fail concept. This is not
what
a target (or should I say *my* opinion of what a target) should be.
If the desire is so strong for Ant to be a cross-platform build scripting
language, why can't we just implement a subset of Python for Ant2 and quit
trying to kludge scripting into XML?
MrT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Barclay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: if and unless attributes for all Tasks
>
>
> Peter Donald wrote:
> >
> > At 01:04 14/5/01 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > >> If you need it, wrap it in a target.
> > >
> > >That won't work well if you want different tasks within one target
> > >to have different conditions.
> >
> > If you have that then you misunderstand the notion of targets ;)
>
> I don't think so, but what you do mean?
>
> You don't think one might want to configure how a target is executed
> by parameterizing tasks with boolean values similarly to how we
> parameterize tasks with string values?
>
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Barclay
> Digital Focus
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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