I completely agree. I too fought the urge to use ant contrib for the
same reasons (I was bent on stock ant). But, if you use ant like you
might use a shell script, ant contrib makes perfect sense. Its a
"small" dependency andmake your build.xml much cleaner and easier to
understand.
Vishal Vishnoi wrote:
I used to be in the same boat sometime back, where I thought using
ant-contrib is building too many external dependency.
Over time I've realized that Ant-contrib is very stable and
complements Ant very well. If you need to use 'if', then use 'if'.
Don't fight it, otherwise you will end up with horrible hard to
understand code.
--Vishal
David wrote:
Dear members,
I am figthing for avoiding to use <if> from ant contrib lib, but I
guess for solving this problem there is no other solution.
I have the following targets:
<target name="target" depends="target-pre"
unless ="target.skip">
...
</target>
Note: From working properly this target I need to compute the
property target.var.value (and this property could be assigned
previoulsy if some target needed such property before)
Now <target name="target-pre" unless ="target.var.value">
<antcall target="compute-target1.var1"/>
<property name="target.var1.value" value="the value is:
${target.var}"/>
</target>
This is the best solution, but the problem comes from the fact
that the property computed on target compute-target1.var (property
target.var) is not assigned after antcall invokation, so it doesn't
work.
but If I use instead of antcall, just dependences I get the value
of target.var properly
<target name="target-pre" unless ="target.var"
depends="compute-target.var">
<property name="target.var.value" value="the value is:
${target.var}"/>
</target>
what I don't like about this solution is that the dependences
targets are ALWAYS execute even if the property target.var was
defined or not. This is a simple case, but on my case the computation
of target.var is a complex task, so I have to run it always.
Using ant contrib it is inmidiatly using <if> task, but I don't
want to add more library dependence to my project.
Do you have any idea about how to solve this problem?
Thanks,
David
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