Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 67010 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2000 09:45:10 -0000 Received: from bodewig.bost.de (root@195.227.98.11) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2000 09:45:10 -0000 Received: (from bodewig@localhost) by bodewig.bost.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02588; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:45:08 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: bodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@apache.org using -f To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Javac dependency checking References: From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 06 Dec 2000 10:45:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: James Duncan Davidson's message of "Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:34:52 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N James Duncan Davidson wrote: > On 12/6/00 1:20 AM, "Stefan Bodewig" wrote: > >> Because this has been ruled out back in May/June on >> ant-dev. Something along the lines of "I don't need it as I use >> jikes and doing a clean build is faster than having an explicit >> dependency tracker". > > That assumes that it can't be turned off. But if there is an > attribute that allows it to be turned off for people who don't want > it (or is effectively ignored if compilertype="jikes"), then it's > not an issue, no? > Wrong list for this discussion. Anyway, I tend to agree with you - and did back in May - but the downside is that relies on a bunch of other classes and that would make more complicated. Stefan