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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:39:37 +0000
From: Fergus Gallagher <Fergus.Gallagher@OrbisUK.com>
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Subject: Re: make-like use of timestamps to avoid unnecessary rework
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Ant does this but strangely I had a similar problem this morning.  It
appears that ant needs to have the java sources in the same directory
structure as the package name.  If you do this, then ant won't recompile
things unnecessarily.

Fergus

jon seymour wrote:
> 
> 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.

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