Again, have a look at <apply>. It does what you are asking for running
command-line programs and checking dependencies and such.
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From: "prasen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ant Developers List"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: conditional dependency logic based "uptodate"
> Actually I need it not only for rmic but other things too. For example
> we have an abstract class generation tool, which takes an interface and
> creates a default implementaion. I have an dptodate target:
>
> <target name="determine-rmic">
> <uptodate property="rmic.notRequired">
> <srcfiles dir="${src}">
> <include name="com/mycompany/interface/*.java"/>
> </srcfiles>
> <mapper type="glob" from="*.java" to="${classdir}/*_Impl.java"/>
> </uptodate>
> </target>
>
> and I want something like this:
> <target name="make-rmic" depends="determine-rmic"
> unless="rmic.notRequired">
> <java classname="com.mycompany.GenerateImplClass" fork="true"
> failonerror="true">
> <arg line="${outdateInterfaceFileName}"/>
> </java>
> </target>
>
>
> I dont want to run this generation tool on all the files, but ONLY the
> outdated files.It is so easy to do this in "make". Does this feature
> already exist or if not is there any plan to intriduce this in future
> releases ? I dont want to compile everything, when only one
> interfacefile has changed.
>
> thanks,
> prasen
>
>
> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I want to selectively invoke rmic only on outdated files. How do I
> > > do that in ant ? For example:
> >
> > Which is what Ant's built-in rmic task does. Why do you use myrmic
> > instead of the built-in task? Maybe it can be rewritten as yet
> > another implementation of the rmic task (it is a facade backed by
> > Sun's, Weblogic's and Kaffe's implementation ATM).
> >
> > Stefan
> >
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