Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Build time went from 25 minutes to 5 minutes on my machine (a pentium II 366 ronzputer). Other people experienced equivalent speedups and everybody is joyful, singing and dancing and with renewed faith on mankind.
If you keep that up, the government will declare it illegal.
LOL :)
The ideal solution to the problem (without requiring to filter everything out would be)
<copy todir="${build.src}" filtering="on"> <fileset dir="${src}"> <include name="**/Constants.java"/> </fileset> </copy>
<javac destdir="${build.dest}"> <src> <fileset dir="${src}"> <exclude name="**/Constants.java"/> </fileset> <path location="${build.src}"/> </src> </javac>
too bad it doesn't work because the <javac> tasks assumes that each file in its fileset is a directory!
Not quite true, I think. The problem is more likely to come from javac itself since it will go looking for files based on the source paths.
then how do the exclude/include work?
IOW, there is a disconnect between javac the task and javac the compiler.
Did you guys ever thought about usign the Eclipse java compiler? It's *very* nice, fast as hell and entirely embeddable and incremental. Plus is IBM public license so its totally legal to redistribute with Ant.
Why not this: <javac destdir="${build.dest}"> <src> <path location="${build.src}"/> <path location="${src}"/> </src> </javac>
That should cause javac to pick up the changed files first and ignore the other copy in src. Well I haven't tried it, so YMMV ...
Nop, tried that and doesn't work. Javac tries to compile both copies of the file, complians about the duplication and fails.
BTW, the other thing to consider is why you need to copy and filter at all at the java source level. Ant's own build approach is to stick all that sort of stuff in a resource and filter it.
yeah, well, if I start fixing all those things in half a million lines of code, I will never finish :)
-- Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate [William of Ockham] --------------------------------------------------------------------
