Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 29907 invoked by uid 500); 17 May 2001 09:56:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 29897 invoked from network); 17 May 2001 09:56:56 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Siberski, Wolf" To: "'ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org'" Subject: RE: [RESULT] multithrading Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:56:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N > Diane Holt wrote: [snip] > > 1. I don't have a problem with requiring a build-file writer to know what > order things should get built in -- if they don't know that, then they > shouldn't be writing the build-file :) I disagree here. The build file writer must know the preconditions of each build step, but what's the reason for letting her find out the order of all build steps? If X is a precondition for Y, then add it to the dependencies of Y instead of hiding it in the order of other target dependency lists. Wolf