Joshua Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> It is not currently possible to emulate the build process with Ant.
> Is this because make has explicity dependencies, whereas in ANT the
> tasks decide at runtime?
This is part of the reason. yes.
Another part is that you had to tell a task to not do anything. A
"make -n" like functionality would affect all tasks and couldn't be
achieved by the Ant framework itself.
All Ant could do was to tell the user "I'd invoke task X with
attributes A,B,C" and so on - and this wouldn't even give the correct
results when if/unless conditions come into the game.
Consider
<target name="a">
<mkdir dir="test" />
</target>
<target name="b">
<available property="testprop" file="test" />
</target>
<target name="c" depends="a,b" if="testprop">
<sometask />
</target>
Should "ant -n c" report that <sometask> will be invoked? How would it
know?
Stefan
