On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:43 am, Gus Heck wrote:
> I agree. This is really cool. The section labeled "Top Level Tasks"
> seems to say that tasks on the top level are run at parse-time. Does
> this mean that the order of tasks at the top level is the order of
> execution, or do the old toplevel tasks still run first?
>
In 1.6 all top-level tasks are gathered, in build-file order, into an
invisible target which is executed at the end of parsing (so technically, not
at parse-time). There is no distinction between old top-level tasks and other
tasks.
So, given this build,
<project name="toplevel" default="main">
<echo message="Task 1 test.prop=${test.prop}"/>
<target name="main">
<echo message="Task 2 test.prop=${test.prop}"/>
</target>
<property name="test.prop" value="fubar"/>
<echo message="Task 3 test.prop=${test.prop}"/>
</project>
the output is
Buildfile: build.xml
[echo] Task 1 test.prop=${test.prop}
[echo] Task 3 test.prop=fubar
main:
[echo] Task 2 test.prop=fubar
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
So, still somethings to be careful about :-)
Conor
