Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
IIRC Conor originally created the depend task. Rob Matt Benson wrote: --- Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yep. Let's just do it. I'm the original offender. Original offender? -Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Benson
--- Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep. Let's just do it. I'm the original offender. Original offender? -Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com --

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 03:45:48 -0800 (PST), Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If we're going to change the loglevel I don't think it's really necessary to wait for a major release. I was only pointing out the potential for an issue. I may tend to play devil's advocate at times and argue a cas

RE: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Benson
--- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I may be willing to accept, grudgingly, > that this be change > in ANT 1.7 only and not backported to ANT 1.6.x. > So we treat this as a new feature of the task on the > new mayor release. > If someone has an obscure usage of this or

RE: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > OK, why would a change in an output message would > > break > > anyones build. We do change things when spellings > > are incorrect. [snip...] > > Maybe I am wrong, but I would like to se

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
Here we go then: the patch simply logs at DEBUG level rather than INFO if nothing has been acheived. Thanks, Rob Antoine Lévy-Lambert wrote: Rob Oxspring wrote: One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the depends task displays something when it performs a no-op. This seems counter to o

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Steve Loughran
Rob Oxspring wrote: One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the depends task displays something when it performs a no-op. This seems counter to other tasks (copy, javac, zip IIRC) and means that my complex build ends up spitting out a lot of output while doing very little. The output

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest just logging this message as debug when changes = 0. +1 > Maybe I am wrong, but I would like to see a meaningful example. People could be parsing log outputs, maybe with custom build listeners, you can never

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-01 Thread Antoine Lévy-Lambert
Rob Oxspring wrote: One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the depends task displays something when it performs a no-op. This seems counter to other tasks (copy, javac, zip IIRC) and means that my complex build ends up spitting out a lot of output while doing very little. The output

RE: and no-op output

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Since the current behavior does not really qualify > as > > a bug, it is not safe to assume that a change to > the > > default behavior of a task would not break > someone's > > build. > >

RE: and no-op output

2004-03-01 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Rob Oxspring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the > > depends task > > displays something when it performs a no-op. This > > > > I was wondering if there was any point in preparing > > a patch to

Re: and no-op output

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Benson
--- Rob Oxspring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the > depends task > displays something when it performs a no-op. This > > I was wondering if there was any point in preparing > a patch to not > output/log if 0 files have been deleted. The patch > /

and no-op output

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Oxspring
One of my (very few) pet hates with ant is that the depends task displays something when it performs a no-op. This seems counter to other tasks (copy, javac, zip IIRC) and means that my complex build ends up spitting out a lot of output while doing very little. The output itself doesn't exact