Ooops. Spelling correction below caused by the spell checker - I clicked "change" by mistake. wk. should have been "wc"
-- Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River direct: +1.613.270.5796 | Skype video: rob.echlin.wr | robert.ech...@windriver.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Echlin, Robert [mailto:robert.ech...@windriver.com] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:34 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Are multiple targets run in order, or in parallel? > > Hi guys, > Thanks, Dominique, for the reminder about order of execution being > dependent on dependencies. > I remember that about dependencies declared in a target. > I am surprised that there isn't a line in the "Running Ant" page referring to > the targets page if the same ordering information applies. > > Responses: > No, I don't know what executors are. > Unrelated: Reading the "targets" docs page just now told me of a new > feature called "extension points", which sounds valuable. > > In my situation: > - target 1 removes all files from the output folders > - target 2 generates link catalogs for the current document set > - target 3 builds the output (HTML, PDF, and Eclipse plugins) using the link > catalogs > > So at least the first one can't possibly depend on later ones directly. :-) > And it doesn't depend on anything, actually. > My concern is that it takes several seconds to run, so it could kill the > first link > catalog, (or maybe parts of it?) and I might not know. > > Regarding complexity of dependencies, I ran: > grep "<target " *.xml | wk. -l grep "<target " *.xml | wc -l > It says we have 233 targets in the system at the moment, so more complex > analysis would not be done by visual inspection. > :-) > > Thanks to Dominique and Scot for the suggestions to try it myself - I would > do that with a simplified build. > > Rob > > > > > -- > Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River > direct: +1.613.270.5796 | Skype video: rob.echlin.wr > | robert.ech...@windriver.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:ddevie...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:03 PM > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: Re: Are multiple targets run in order, or in parallel? > > > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Echlin, Robert > > <robert.ech...@windriver.com> wrote: > > > "ant target1 target2 target3" > > > Will target1 be guaranteed to be complete before target2 is run? > > > > Yes, with two "but"s: > > 1) If you use the default executor. If you don't know what an executor > > is, you most likely are :) > > 2) If target1 declared a dependency on target2 or target3, directly or > > not, they could execute in a different order. > > > > Note running "ant t1 t2 t3" is almost equivalent to running "ant t1", > > "ant t2", "ant t3", in the sense that the dependencies of t1 are > > executed before t1 itself, then the dependencies of t2 before t2, *as > > if* t1 hasn't been run before (modulo properties/references set by > > t1), which means that some dependent targets (e.g. init) may execute > > several times (unless "protected" from multiple executions by a > > property). So if target1 depends on target2, order of execution would > > be target2 (from the target1 dependency), target1, target2 (from the > > explicit cli invocation), target3. At least that's how I recall this > > works, but you should double-check it yourself. --DD > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
