On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Vimil Saju wrote: > I read about the new macrodef task which can be used create a custom > composite task by combining other tasks together. Using the macrodef task > instead of antcall cant we overcome the performance overhead and the property > visibility issues with antcall? >
Certainly, aside from the fact that macrodef is not really that new, having been released with Ant 1.6 IIRC. ;) -Matt > --- On Thu, 8/19/10, Knuplesch, Juergen <juergen.knuple...@icongmbh.de> wrote: > > From: Knuplesch, Juergen <juergen.knuple...@icongmbh.de> > Subject: AW: Conditional target problem > To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 8:03 AM > > Antcallback gives back some props you define > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Niklas Matthies [mailto:ml_ant-u...@nmhq.net] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 15:55 > An: Ant Users List > Betreff: Re: Conditional target problem > > On Tue 2010-08-17 at 16:20h, Vimil Saju wrote on user: >> I know ant is supposed to be declarative language as opposed to a >> procedural one, but whats wrong with using the 'if' task provided >> with ant-contrib along with "ant-call" task? > > AntCall effectively creates a new Ant instance. Properties and > references set within the call won't be visible after the call > returns, and targets executed before the call might be executed > again within the call. It's very different from having a target > as a dependency. Replacing one with the other has all sorts of > ramifications. > > -- Niklas Matthies > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
