5 and 10 minutes does seem quite excessive. 3 seconds was more along the lines
of the sleeping I had to add to builds when I was doing a lot of builds on...
you guessed it, Windows (which apparently may return control to the caller
before the system is fully finished with the process). I would certainly
experiment with reducing those times if I were you.
HTH,
Matt
--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Use of Sleep
> To: "Ant Users" <user@ant.apache.org>
> Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 10:45 AM
> I've seen a lot of folks following
> <exec> tasks with sleep. Doesn't the exec task wait
> for a return code prior to returning to the caller? I
> inherited A BUNCH of Ant build files that were just RIDDLED
> with 5 minutes of sleep here 10 minutes of sleep there...
> The build takes half of a day to finish when all is said
> and done. To me, that is rediculous. I come from a dot
> net/NAnt environment where my longest build took 20 minutes
> and I wasn't happy with that one.
>
>
>
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