> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 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?
(did I really say 'explicitly dependencies'... eew!)
> 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.
Yep. This would certainly make the framwork->task interface more complex.
I actually was looking around for this in the code when developing my first
task.
I suppose the only thing that 'ant -n' could do is list the potential
targets. .. not all that usefull, I suppose.
