----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Programmatically stopping build


> > Without patching Ant, there is no way.  Suggestions how to make Ant
> > easier to embed that way?
>
> As Steve Loughran suggested, perhaps a "cancelBuild" method could be added
> to Project which sets a flag and various points in the build code path
check
> that flag and throw a BuildCancelledException  if it is set.
>
> One problem with this is that Tasks themselves would have to be modified
to
> also check this flag so that long-running Tasks don't prevent the build
from
> being cancelled until they're completed. Unfortunately, this fails for
tasks
> like Javac where most of the time is spent in the Sun javac code.

I wasnt going to think about that; way too complicated.


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