On 2011-10-24, AVee wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:31:24 +0200, Stefan Bodewig > <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
>> I know that I have used retry logic in totally different circumstances >> in code where I increased the delay with each retry attempt. I.e. I >> waited a very short time before the first retry and doubled it each >> time. Would something like this make sense here as well? > The thought crossed my mind, but I didn't do this because (for me at > least) the number of retries is always going to be very limited. > When the number of retries is limited the total time you're going to > be retrying is going to be relatively low, I guess the increment won't > make a big difference in that case. Personally I wouldn't want my > build scripts to spend 10 minutes retrying something, but if you > think there's a use for it I could build it. Should be easy enough. In my case it was a very short wait time for specific circumstances - that are pretty unlikely to occur as part of a build process. Let's defer that feature until anybody really asks for it. >> It would be good if you could open an enhancement request in bugzilla >> and attach your patch. It is less prone to get lost there compared to >> the developers' INBOX. > There you go: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52076 Thanks Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
