--- Craig Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) it seems like some way of quickly comparing a property to some value
> would be helpful. as an '=' is almost certainly never going to be a
> valid character in a property, this kind of thing should work pretty
> well:
> <target name="target" if="some.property=hello"/>
> <target name="target" if="some.property=goodbye"/>
Diligently (very very :) asked for a looong time ago, and turned down
flat. (I ended up having a modified Target.java for quite awhile for that
very reason. With the advent of <condition> in 1.4, that can finally
[yay!] go away.)
> 2) something that calls one or more targets AFTER a target has
> completed. for example, in my init target, i often have properties that
> i need to conditionally set, and currently the only way to easily do
> that is multiple targets with 'if' attributes. but, i would still want
> to ensure that the init is completed first, while still ensuring that
> the other conditional-inits are completed immediately following the init
> target.
Maybe I'm just not fully awake yet this morning, but -- you lost me. The
only I know of to start another target before the first one is done is to
include an <antcall>/<ant> in it, then have additional tasks after that.
Eg:
<target name="foo">
<echo message="I'm foo..."/>
<antcall target="bar"/>
<echo message="I'm foo again."/>
</target>
<target name="bar">
<echo message="I'm bar..."/>
</target>
BTW: There's a problem with logging on this -- the "[echo] I'm foo again."
ends up printing out as a task of target bar (oops).
> 3) some way to silence a target.
Use NoBannerLogger.
> 4) some way to indicate that a target is to be only called from the
> build file itself, not externally. this is basically what i'm trying to
> simulate in 3), but being able to code it directly in the build file
> might be helpful.
I suppose an attribute could be added to <target> (eg., "external";
defaults to yes), but I'm not knowledgeable enuf with Ant's internals to
say for sure how easy that would be to do.
Diane
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