On Nov 20, 2007 12:24 PM, mjdenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ant build file is getting quite long and has a lot of targets. When I > view the ant file in Eclipse it can be difficult to see which targets are > the top-level ones which I would call and which are just helper targets like > "init". > > Is it possible to remove some of the "targets" from the external interface > just leaving a set of targets which people will actually invoke.
No, I don't think so. But traditionally, some people (like me) used helper targets' name starting with a dask, as in "-init", which made them impossible to call from the command line, an in general indicates an "internal" (as in implement-detail) target of the build. IDEs don't have restrictions on calling these targets though. Having the leading dash would at least group these targets in a different lexicographic group, since targets are usually sorted by names in IDEs. I would not be surprised to learn that some IDEs allow to hide some target names, but you can't do that in Ant AFAIK. --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
