Dominique,
thanks for the reply. i'll heed your advice and stay away from
parallel for now. it just looked like a nice way to process some of
the 'optional' tasks we have. :)
i'll take a look at your other suggestions.
thanks again
andy
On 1/24/07, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm looking at the use of the parallel task to run some optional jobs
> during my build. this looks like it would be perfect for doing things
> like javadoc, junit, jprobe, etc. however, i would like to be able to
> switch my optional tasks so that they are only run if a flag was set.
> currently i have each of them in their own target and use the
> if="flag_set" attribute in the target. but this doesn't allow me to
> run them in parallel. is there a way to run these as 'switched' tasks
> within a parallel target?
That's an usual request.
> <target name="junit" depends="package" if="run_junit">
> <ant antfile="junit.xml />
> </target>
>
> <target name="javadoc" depends="package" if="run_javadoc">
> <ant antfile="javadoc.xml" />
> </target>
Ah, each of these is its own build file!
In this case, what I'd do is use <exec spawn="${in-parallel}"> to run
the (optional) sub-build, in it's own process. Simply changing the
value of the 'in-parallel' property changes the behavior from
sequential to parallel. This way, you achieve parallelism at the
process level, and not the thread level, which should be more robust
anyway.
Then your 'optional_tasks' target simply depends on the other targets
to spawn, and an additional one that simply sets the right properties
to get the behaviour you want in the former.
With spawn="true", you loose the output of the spawed process, but you
can configure that process to log to a file. There are examples in the
archieves to emulate <ant fork="true"> with <java> or <exec>, and
adding spawn="true" is simply a variation.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, sorry ;-)
I've used Ant for a long time, but except for parallel-<get>s one
time, I've shied away from <parallel>, as many weird things can happen
in Ant with it, IMHO. It's not a task for the faint-of-heart ;-) Good
luck, --DD
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