Mikael,
Have you looked at the uptodate task?
Conor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael St�ldal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 January 2001 1:53
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IDL compilation with ant -> problem?
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> James Duncan Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Is there some sort of dependency checking possible or do we have to
> >> write a seperate tool that generates build files based on dependencies?
> >
> >Dependency checking is a function of the task itself.
>
> Then I want to have general dependency checking in the <java>, <exec>
> and <execon> tasks, since they are used to invoke translation utilites.
>
> I don't like the idea to have to write a separate task for each
> translation utility, just because I want basic dependency checking.
>
> For the <java>, <exec> and <execon> tasks, you should be able to
> specify one target file and a Fileset of source files, and the task
> should only be executed if at least one of the source files is newer
> than the target file. For <execon>, you already have the source file
> set.
>
