That is very good news. So you are saying:
1) All "depends" are executed
2) "Unless" is evaluated
3) If "Unless" is false, the actual target is executed.
Correct?
Thanks,
Gili
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:45:12 -0800 (PST), Matt Benson wrote:
>--- 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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