----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:24
AM
Subject: [nant-dev] Depends targets
getting executed multiple times in 8.4
After the change
to the explicit <call> behavior, now ensuring all dependencies get
called, there has also been a change to the behavior of depends=
arguments:
These depends
targets now always get called also, even if already
executed.
For
example:
<target
name="debug" depends="onetimesetup"/>
<target
name="release" depends="onetimesetup"/>
running "nant
debug release" results in onetimesetup being called for each
target.
This is contrary
to what I would expect "makelike" behavior to be, and also contrary to the
current documentation for <target>:
"A target gets
executed only once, even when more than one target depends on it (see the
previous example)."
I like the change
to <call> so you can more easily call targets as subroutines, but think
the former behavior of depends= should be restored.
/
/br
