I hear you; Maybe what we should do, is to put back support for <call
force="false"/>, would this work for you?
In the next version we will have expression/function support. It will be
possible to do this (or something like it):
<call target="foo" unless="target::has-executed('foo')/>
I think this will give you the power to simplify things.
What do you think?
Please post your patch for your <exec/> changes :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "James C. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: [nant-dev] Change to "call" task makes upgrade difficult
> The change to the "call" task makes upgrading our build scripts to the
newest
> version of NAnt extremely difficult. We used the "call" task as a way to
> handle dynamic dependences, which cannot be accomplished with the
"depends"
> attribute on targets.
>
> If I submit a new task called "depends" that works like this:
>
> <target name="A">
> <if propertytrue="foo">
> <depends ontarget="B,C"/>
> </if>
> </target>
>
> ...would the NAnt development team be willing to incorporate it? It would
work
> just as the "depends" attribute does now, except targets only gets
resolved
> when the task is encountered. This way, the changes made to the "call"
task
> can stay the way they are.
>
> Currently, the only work around we have now, is to add many properties
that are
> used to prevent a tasks for being executed more then once. This new task
would
> make things much cleaner and simpler to understand. Comments welcomed,
> especially on the names.
>
> I also have some patches for the "exec" task which adds "resultproperty"
and
> "outputproperty" attributes, which functions just like Ant (though,
> "outputproperty" includes both standard and error streams and is returned
even
> if output is redirected).
>
> James.
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