> comiitters don't like notion of "magic" names for tasks.
... and I would have been one of them! Keeping things clear and
straightforward should be the defualt, and "magic" names certainly wouldn't
provide that. This is also why I don't like the ability to put things other
than targets directly under project -- its not clear at all which tasks are
allowed at the top level, and which aren't... until you try.
But I don't think allowing an init target has anything to do with "magic"
names... If the project element allowed an "init" attribute, then the
target name wouldn't be magic; at least no more than the default target is.
e.g.
<project name="foo" init="startup" default="all">
<target name="startup">
<!-- no new magic here... -->
</target>
<target name="all">
<!-- no current magic here... -->
</target>
</project>
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: top level tags in ant vs. "init" task as an attribute of
> project
>
>
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:09, Tim Dawson wrote:
> > What I'd like to recommend is for those elements to need to
> be defined
> > inside a target, and to add to the <project> tag an "init"
> attribute to
> > complement the "default" attribute. Whereas "default" is
> the default target
> > to execute if one is not defined, "init" would be a target
> to execute once
> > before doing anything.
> >
> > I know that my code is littered with depends="init" on
> almost all targets,
> > even though most of the time its unnecessary since init has already
> > executed due to a previous dependency. I'd like to only
> have it where
> > necessary, but its hard to keep track. It sure would be
> nice to be able to
> > remove those, and it would also be nice to have the
> consistency of having
> > everything inside <project> be a <target>.
>
> This was actually the case at one time and a whole bunch of ant-dev
> committers agreed that it was the "right thing to do" at the
> time. However
> subsequently a whole bunch of users complained and quite a
> few ant-dev
> comiitters don't like notion of "magic" names for tasks.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
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