I would look at uptodate http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/uptodate.html
That would test file timestamps and set a property. I am not sure what you want to do. --glenn On 1/6/06, Steve Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ant for about a year but I still feel like I am a > newbie, and maybe this explains my question, but you tell me. > > I have a script where I compile the sources for my project and jar it > all up. This works well but I'm looking at adding an optimization where > the Jar task would be skipped if no source file had to be recompiled. > How could I do that? > > I looked at the Condition task, but that didn't light up anything in my > mind. I'm guessing that I need to find out from the Javac task how many > files had to be compiled, but how would I do that? > > Steve > > -- > Steve Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://homepage.mac.com/sroy> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]