Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 37970 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2000 12:25:31 -0000 Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (203.26.10.16) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Feb 2000 12:25:31 -0000 Received: from zeta.org.au ([202.7.70.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA27428 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:28:02 +1100 Message-ID: <38A2AD6A.909D141F@zeta.org.au> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:22:03 +1100 From: jon seymour X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: make-like use of timestamps to avoid unnecessary rework Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I like the ideas behind ant - great work! A feature of make that I would really miss, though, is the ability to avoid performing work that hasn't been invalidated since last time it was done [ my build processes are long running enough as they are! ] Are there any plans to incorporate some kind of timestamp checking mechanism to avoid building targets that have already been built and are still valid? Regards, jon.