It's nice to see some feedback and new ideas; would anybody like to comment on what I actually did? ;)
See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44980 for the issue I raised almost immediately after posting a request for comments. 2008/5/28 Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> >> sorry for the delay, a combination of a whole lot of work, a broken >> iBook, very nice weather and severe back pain (not necessarily in that >> order) have kept me offline. >> >> On Wed, 14 May 2008, Colm Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Yes I used subant, but as I said, it can't recurse on the current >>> target. >>> >>> Since recursion should be a core function of a hierarchical build >>> system, I think this patch is worth adding to Ant. >> >> First of all your original mail didn't contain the patch itself. >> >> Second you said you used ant-contrib's for and I pointed out that >> subant should be enough. The only thing that's missing is a property >> that knows the current target, isn't it? >> >> I know we have rejected the idea of such a property in the past, but >> we may be at a different point today, so if you open an enhancement >> request for such a property (or find the old one and reopen it), that >> would e the right place to attach a patch to enable it. > > I could imagine a task to set a property to the current target > > <location target="targetproperty" buildfile="fileproperty" /> > > ...maybe even something for a complete stack trace/list of imports that is > live > > -- > Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5 > Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
