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From: "Nelson, Laird" <Laird.Nelson@time0.com>
To: "'ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org'" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [RFE] Default Help target on error ?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:54:52 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
> On the other hand one can do the same using just if and unless on
> targets as well as an echo task - it would be the more forgiving way
> as well:
> 
> <target name="main" depends="dosomething,reporterror" />
> 
> <target name="dosomething" if="java1.2">
>   .... do the stuff you need to do
> </target>
> 
> <target name="reporterror" unless="java1.2">
>   <echo message="Need JDK >= 1.2 to work" />
> </target>

Right, but in the spirit (I hope) of ant I'd rather have this more
explicit--part of project initialization.  It's odd to have your main target
depend on a reporterror target.  And if your platform isn't set up right,
you don't *want* it to be forgiving.

I like the idea of a die task, but then I have some fond memories of perl.
:-)

Cheers,
Laird