> folks, for reasons like: what happens if the failure target fails? Exit gracefully.
I believe that the feature should be available since such situations not uncommon in software systems. Personally I would prefer to avoid Java listeners since they themselves would require building and maintenance, both avoidable overheads. Kurien > > It certainly is technically possible, but this has been rejected > by the dev > folks, for reasons like: what happens if the failure target fails? > > A listener is the right place, currently, for such things. Eventually it > will be possible to attach a listener from within the build file (and you > 'almost' can already with <record>. but not quite like what you desire). > > If you wanted to get real tricky, you could create a listener that upon > failure fired a failure target! :) But you'd have to deal with whatever > potentially ugly issues could come up from doing such a thing and I'm not > sure what kinds of things get destroyed before the listener gets > notified of > a failure. > > Erik > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kurien Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ant user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:14 PM > Subject: Notification of failed builds > > > > Would it be possible to have Ant execute a user-specified > target whenever > > build fails? This I guess would be simpler than having to attach a > listener > > written in Java. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
