On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:18, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wait, you said that it prints out: > > > > "Skipped already imported file build.xml" > > > > This means that the current file is *not* imported twice... how do > > you gather that it executes the import once? > > ISTR Peter said it would be imported the first time through and > running ant -verbose says > > ,---- > > | Importing file build.xml from /tmp/build.xml > | Skipped already imported file: > | /tmp/build.xml > > `---- > > which looked to me as if it imported itself and skipped the then > imported import task. I added an <echo> to the top and only get that > once, so maybe it doesn't import anything at all.
Looks like you are correct. I ran my test again and only one echo is executed. I am sure that I saw two before ... Maybe a recent fix had this effect ? Peter > > > Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >> If A imports B and B imports A, I do consider it a bug in the build > >> file. > > > > It is not. It means that both need each other, not "call" each > > other, there is no recursion. If I import class A from B, and B > > from A, Java will correctly compile the code, it already takes care > > of it too. > > <import> and Java's import are quite different IMHO. > > <import> includes the other file completely, so the analogy would > rather be the one of C's #include to me (if you leave out the target > override issue for a moment). And "including" is recursive to me. > > gcc's preprocessor will let me circularly include files until I hit a > limit and then make the compilation fail - so it doesn't flag it as > sort of syntax error, but doesn't silently skip the include either. > Thinking about it, it can't as some #define's may have changed in > between so including the same file multiple times is valid in a richer > pre-processor environment. <justkidding> We could do the same... with toplevel if's and antelope's <var> or ant-contrib's <propertyregex> to modify variables .. opps I mean properties. </justkidding> Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
