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From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@STJUDE.ORG>
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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:03:05 -0600
Subject: RE: excluding unstable blocks by default
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Tim Larson <tim@keow.org> asks:

>=20
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:45:56AM -0600, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> > Tim Larson <tim@keow.org> writes:
> >=20
> > > We could make it more like a debian APT source list, eg:
> > >   build core
> > >   build stable
> > >   build unstable
> > >   build deprecated
> > >   build core stable deprecated
> > >   build stable unstable
> > >   build core stable custom=3Dsome-file
> > > Just list the parts you want to build at the moment.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Aren't you always going to need the core?  Don't think you=20
> should even=20
> > have to specify it at all (it would always be included)...
>=20
> You always need it, but you do not need to build it every=20
> time. For example, after a "cvs co -d" I do a full build of=20
> cocoon, but for each build after that I use local.* files to=20
> cause only cforms to be rebuilt, thus preventing ant from=20
> having to evaluate the other parts of Cocoon only to find out=20
> what I already knew, they did not need to be rebuilt. Does=20
> this make more sense now?

No :-)  Let computers do what computers are good at: figuring out
whether something needs to be rebuilt is pretty much what Ant is
designed to do.  No need to give humans the opportunity to screw it up
as far as I can see...