Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 84007 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2001 20:50:28 -0000 Received: from mail.ss8.ca (HELO ss8mail1.ss8ott) (209.87.228.147) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2001 20:50:28 -0000 Received: from sibonpc (SIBON_PC [192.168.1.63]) by ss8mail1.ss8ott with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id CF8WB1FQ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:50:16 -0500 From: "Sibon Barman" To: Subject: dependency checking Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:49:17 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi all, It seems to me that Ant is excellent in dependency checking --- does it do anything special to achieve this dependency checking ---- as far as I remember java compiler could not check cyclic package dependencies ie. if pk1.a.java depends on pk2.b.java which in turn depends on pk1.c.java. Does anyone know how ant achieves resolving this dependency checking without Makefile. Other than this curiousity, ant seems to be very easy to lear and use. Cheers, Software Designer SS8 Networks Suite 500 495 March Road Kanata, Ontario K2K 3G1