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 25545 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2001 21:19:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.epost.de) (64.39.38.71) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 22 Jan 2001 21:19:29 -0000 Received: from nshome (62.226.243.199) by mail.epost.de (5.1.057) id 3A6C0C320000BAAB for ant-user@jakarta.apache.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:19:15 +0100 Message-ID: <001c01c084b9$12d8d3f0$0100280a@nshome> From: "Nico Seessle" To: References: Subject: Re: ant.properties Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:19:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dennis Brake" >To: >Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:43 PM >Subject: RE: ant.properties > >Yes. If you only change one class, only that class and classes that >use it will be recompiled. > >Another advantage over make is speed. Ant builds a set of all files >that have changed (timestamp comparison) and feeds them into the >javac task. Using make, the Makefile would traverse the directories Isn't that a contradiction? Doesn't this mean: It recompiles dependent classes if the compiler supports it? Nico