On Fri, 13 May 2005, Phil Weighill Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:00 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >> > But say the importER explicitly depends on bar.foo . Isn't this >> > still going to pollute the log in the opposite way my >> > implementation would? :) i.e. >> > >> > [foo]: >> > >> > [bar.foo]: >> >> Yes. But this is less likely than having the importer depend on >> "foo" IMHO. So in the normal case everything would look the same >> as today and in border cases we'll get an additional empty target. > > If I understand what you're saying correctly, you don't expect > importer build scripts to depend explicitly on the renamed imported > targets.
No. I fully expect importers to do so now. And if they do they must have overridden the target themselves, so what Matt descibes doesn't happen. Let's take your example and add a target. > I'd disagree: we commonly "augment" the standard targets like this: > > standard.xml: > > <project name="standard"> > <target name="compile">...</target> <target name="new-target"/> > </project> > > build.xml: > > <project name="my-build" basedir="." default="compile"> > <import file="${standard.dir}/standard.xml"/> > > <target name="compile" depends="standard.compile">...</target> > </project> Today your build.xml can't use a target that depends on "standard.new-target" as this target doesn't exist. Peter's approach would create a copy of "new-target" with the name "standard.new-target". Matt's approach would implicitly add a new target <target name="new-target" depends="standard.new-target"/> to build.xml (which also renames the "new-target" in standard.xml to "standard.new-target"). Now if you run $ ant new-target the output will be ,---- | standard.new-target: | | new-target: `---- and you see that new-target has been imported from standard. My approach would adds <target name="standard.new-target" depends="new-target"/> to build.xml. "ant new-target" still looks the same as it would if we don't add a target at all. But now if you use $ ant standard.new-target the output will be ,---- | new-target: | | standard.new-target: `---- So in either case you get to see an implementation detail - the empty target that either Matt or I wanted to introduce. I simply claimed that Matt's case was more likely to happen than mine since you can't depend on "standard.new-target" or invoke "ant standard.new-target" at all today. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]