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From: Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de
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Subject: RE: <uptodate/>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:38:17 +0100
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Use <target unless="help-current">

Targets if and unless attributes require the NAME of a property.


Jan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Kuenzler [mailto:svenk@despammed.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:22 PM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: <uptodate/>
> 
> 
> How is the uptodate Task supposed to be working?
> 
>     <target name="checkhelp" depends="prepare">
>       <uptodate property="help-current"
>                 srcfile="${resource.dir}/doc/handbuch.xml"
>                 targetfile="${build.dir}/web/base/help/index.html">
>       </uptodate>
>     </target>
> 
>     <target name="help" depends="checkhelp,helpfiles"/>
> 
>     <target name="helpfiles" unless="${help-current}">
>        <echo message="${help-current}"/>
>     </target>
> 
> 
> Calling "ant help" gives "true" or "${help-current}" as output, 
> depending on whether the srcfile is newer or older than the target. 
> However, I would have hoped that the helpfiles task is not 
> called at all 
> when the target is up to date.
> 
> Did I miss anything?
> 
> Ant version is 1.5(.3)
> 
> 	Thanks, Sven
> 
> 
> 
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