Actually the new <for> task uses a <macrodef> type approach to avoid the <antcall>.
-Matt --- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jose Alberto Fernandez > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > From: Dominique Devienne > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > For maybe a little use case, we have different > types of > > > tests, UNIT tests, GUI tests, DB tests, etc... > each in its own target. > > > > > > The test target calls them all, by explicitly > listing all the > > > test types. I'd happily write depends="test-*" > insteall of > > > depends="test-UNIT, test-GUI, test-DB, ...". > > > > > > > Hummm, this looks like a foreach to me. Or more > exactly > > using the new <for/> task of antcontrib (which I > think it should be > > candidate to the 3rd party task of the year > award). > > "Find all the target names into a property and > then use for to execute > > the antcalls: > > > > <for param="target" list="${test.targets}> > > <sequential> > > <antcall target="@{target}"/> > > </sequential> > > </for> > > Hmmm, you have to pay the expense of an <antcall>, > which is significant in speed but especially in > memory, > and then you must be careful of property/reference > inheritance, > and bypass the static target analysis. > > > I use a script to look at target names and get > those of my interest. > > Thus you need a scripting language and bsf and write > a script to > look up target names... I'm not that fond of such a > solution. > > > In other words, it seems all you may want to do > can be done with > > the available tasks. > > Without going to Perl-extremes, sometimes having > multiple ways to > do something is a good thing, especially when one > way is in the fact > very convoluted, requires lots of external > tasks/code, and the > other way is cleaner, faster, uses less memory, and > is built-in > without any external dependencies. > > Which is why I still favor this enhancement. --DD > > > > Anyways, maybe the patch writer would have a > better use case ;-) > > > > Yeap. > > > > Jose Alberto > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
