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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:47:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Diane Holt <holtdl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Another feature request??
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--- Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org> wrote:
> I was thinking about this more when installing stuff. Under unixes you
> usually have to go something like
> 
> make clean; ./configure; make; make install
> 
> It would be nice if the equivelent was translated into ants
> 
> ant clean configure main install
> 
> rather than 4 different invocations. However thats not possible now
> because the user doesn't know the default target.

Why wouldn't the supplied build-file just have the 'install' target run
the 'clean', 'configure', and 'main' targets (either via <antcall>s or the
[new for Ant2, order-specifiable] "depends") and have 'install' be
specified as the value for the "default" attr in <project>? Then the
instructions for someone installing the software would simply be:

1. Unpack the <whatever-kind-of> file.
2. Run 'ant'.

Ant doesn't need a built-in default target to make things easy for
end-users -- and anyone writing an Ant build-file is going to have to
learn lots of things that are far more complicated than specifying the
default target in the <project> tag.

Diane

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(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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