--- Gili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Correct, except that if you read the Ant
> documentation it says
> that "depends" is not executed before "unless". It
> says that "depends"
> simply declares the order of execution if the
> dependencies if the
> target is being executed (i.e. past the "unless"
> stage). At least,
> that's my interpretation. Am I wrong?
Alas, you are indeed wrong. ;) The manual goes on to
say:
<quote>
Important: the if and unless attributes only enable or
disable the target to which they are attached. They do
not control whether or not targets that a conditional
target depends upon get executed. In fact, they do not
even get evaluated until the target is about to be
executed, and all its predecessors have already run.
</quote>
Conditional execution in pure Ant has historically and
still does rely largely on "execute on one or more
targets (depends), THEN check whether some property is
set (if/unless)."
HTH,
-Matt
>
> Gili
>
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:24:22 +0100, Stefan Bodewig
> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Gili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, that I understand but there is the further
> problem that
> >> I need the <uptodate> to execute before target B
> but after
> >> target A. Adding it to the "depends" listing of
> B will not
> >> help because as the docs specify "depends" is
> only invoked
> >> if unless is false and in my case I want the
> <uptodate> to
> >> be invoked *before* evaluating ódependsó.
> >
> >Unless I'm misunderstanding your requirements, you
> want
> >
> ><target name="check-A">
> > <uptodate property="A.uptodate" .../>
> ></target>
> ><target name="A" depends="check-A"
> unless="A.uptodate">
> > ...
> ></target>
> ><target name="check-B" depends="A">
> > <uptodate property="B.uptodate" .../>
> ></target>
> ><target name="B" depends="check-B"
> unless="B.uptodate">
> > ...
> ></target>
> >
> >Stefan
> >
>
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