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Subject: Re: Conditional javadocs build
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 18 Jul 2001 14:02:23 +0200
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mark Hewitt <MHewitt@Armature.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to tell the javadoc task to execute only if there 
> have been any changes to the packages over which it is running?

Not the task itself, but a combination of <uptodate> and target's
unless attribute.  See Ant's own build file (targets javadoc_check and
javadocs) as an example.

Stefan