Re: Where in the Buildr codebase does it determine that it needs to start retrieving a dependency jar?

[Victor Hugo Borja]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Timo Rantalaiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> This is what I thought initially, but as far as I can tell,
> it doesn't get even that far if the artifact already exists.
> There must be some other check somewhere before that.
>

The Artifact class inherits Rake::FileCreationTask, so I guess its actions
only get called
if its needed? method returns true ( rake.rb:794 returns !File.exist?(name)
)
So if the artifact exists on your local repo, then its actions/prerequisites
are not executed.