This doesn't seem right to me.
Well, right or wrong, that is the way Ant has worked since the start and it will not be changed now. The paragraph you are quoting is about the dependencies in a single Ant target evaluation. So if Laurie had a target
<target name="target3" depends="target1, target2"/>
and he executes
ant target3
then init will only be run once. IOW,
ant target1 target2
is not the same beast. It says evaluate target1 and then evaluate target2.
There are probably arguments for both behaviours. With Ant, you can do something like this
ant build clean
and be sure the clean is the last target evaluated even if build or one of its dependencies depends on "clean"
The "Using Ant" chapter of the "Ant User Manual" has always seemed pretty clear on the subject:
"In a chain of dependencies stretching back from a given target [...] each target gets executed only once, even when more than one target depends on it."
See text paragraph five of:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#targets
So shouldn't Laurie's "init" target only be executed once (without having to fiddle with mysterious undocumented Ant settings)?!?!?
Conor
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