Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Holzwarth
Antform is available on sourceforge. I use it to provide a form for users to select options during the compile or to get the username and password for the CM system. SVN login This puts a form up for user input. The problem would be that if the parallel tasking redirects out

Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-19 Thread Klaus Malorny
Chuck Holzwarth wrote: Perhaps the facility that spawns the targets could manage the screen/buffer output. This would mean that some facility would have to exist similar to named pipes in Unix. This way, console output would be directed from the buffer (or pipe) that had first output while other

Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Holzwarth
Perhaps the facility that spawns the targets could manage the screen/buffer output. This would mean that some facility would have to exist similar to named pipes in Unix. This way, console output would be directed from the buffer (or pipe) that had first output while other targets would be produ

Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-18 Thread Klaus Malorny
Chuck Holzwarth wrote: [...] How do you propose to handle potential fatal/non fatal errors? If target a exits due to an error, should there be an option to kill a or allow it to complete (similar to failonerror="yes/no")? If both a and (b,c) must succeed for d, should a be killed if b or c fails

Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Holzwarth
It may be better to stay away from a grammar that gives the rules and use something like: ... How do you propose to handle potential fatal/non fatal errors? If target a exits due to an error, should there be an option to kill a or allow it to complete (similar to failonerror="yes/no

Re: extended parallelism

2007-12-18 Thread Robin Chaddock
Isn't this the default behaviour anyway? Should not be interpretted as " 'a' depends on 'b' then 'c' then 'd' ", as that would imply that 'b' depended up 'c', which in turn depended upon 'd'. If such a dependency did exist, it should be incorporated in the depends attribute of the 'b' & 'c' ta