On Tuesday 02 April 2002 15:02 pm, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That looks like a pretty safe way to check for platform-specific > > commands > > But costly at the same time, and you have to make sure that you don't > create any side effects in the execution. I'd be very careful here.
What types of side-effects (not arguing, just asking)? i can't currently imagine any side-effects which can't also be caused by mis-typing a property name or other such mistake. Of course, if you go deleting trees and such in your execs, it's you're own fault if something fails later because a tree isn't there. That's just part of buildfile debuggering. > But costly... With all the build time ant has saved me, i almost feel the need to take up a few extra minutes with extraneous <exec> calls ;). (build time > 60 minutes with make, <4 with ant.) ----- stephan Generic Unix Computer Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) �552 92 862 Handy: �+49 (179) 211 97 67 "...control is a degree of inhibition, and a system which is perfectly inhibited is completely frozen." -- Alan W. Watts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
