Re: Ant dependencies task

2005-08-13 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I do it that way for two reasons mainly: (1) Many times during development I need to have certain tasks disabled, and sometimes what is enabled and disabled changes, and I find it easier to comment out an antcall as shown. (2) It's a little more explicit in my mind as to what is happening and

Re: Ant dependencies task

2005-08-13 Thread Steve Loughran
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Hi again, This did the trick, almost... there was one other piece to the puzzle... I had to add inheritRefs="true" to all the targets I antcall'd. So, my main build target looks like: why do you structure your build process this way

Question about deprecation

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Smith
Hi, I'm new to the mailing list, and have a question about compiling deprecated classes. Is it possible, when compiling with Ant, to arrange the compilation so that deprecated classes are not ignored during the build? >From what I've read, the Java compiler will ignore deprecated classes when co

Re: Ant dependencies task

2005-08-13 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hi again, This did the trick, almost... there was one other piece to the puzzle... I had to add inheritRefs="true" to all the targets I antcall'd. So, my main build target looks like: ...and the get_dependencies is now:

Re: Ant dependencies task

2005-08-13 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hi Brian, That didn't seem to work... I get: BUILD FAILED The type doesn't support the nested "target" element. Using Ant 1.6.1 Frank Dick, Brian E. wrote: You can recode as -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Question about deprecation

2005-08-13 Thread Kristian Perkins
The use of the deprecated tag is to advise developers to use an alternate method/class while still including the deprecated functionality in your products for backwards compatibility. I suggest if you don't want certain files in your build at all to mark them as removed in your repository, thi