Re: [Ant-contrib-developers] [CppTasks] How to support dependencies?

[Curt A. <ca...@ho...>]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:01 AM, BONNEFILLE Guilhem wrote:

> Curt Arnold wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you are doing everything right.  Could you try with a   
>> cpptasks built from the current CVS HEAD to see if the problem   
>> persists?  If not, then tar up your project (including the   
>> dependencies.xml and history.xml files) and file a bug report.    
>> Please specify the type of file system hosting the source files,  
>> the  JVM and operating system in use.
>
> I'm unable to made a CVS checkout due to my corporate firewall.
> Is there any other way to obtain the code?
> Do you planned to migrate to SVN? ;-)

The SVN option is fairly new at SourceForge.  I'd need to double  
check the migration process, but I've been pleased with SVN since the  
migration at Apache.

> Is there a nightly build somewhere?
>

You can download a nightly unverified build from http:// 
vmgump.apache.org/gump/public-jars/cpptasks/jars/


> As I planned to use cpptasks in my "comercial" project, I'm really  
> interesting in contributing (as tester at least).
>
>> There had been a bug (but I believe it was prior to b3) where   
>> whitespace between the # and include would not be accepted, so  
>> the  dependency would not be recognized.  However, that should  
>> have  resulted in too little rebuilding.  File system timestamp  
>> resolutions  have been source of similar problems, basically if  
>> the time stamps  are not consistent within a given tolerance (I  
>> think it is 0.1 sec),  then files will be mistakenly marked as  
>> modified.
>
> I also planned to use ant and cpptask inside eclipse. So, it is  
> really important for me to have a tool that rebuild fastly and so,  
> only the necessary.
> Do you think it is a good (or bad) idea?

Rebuilding large projects as quickly as possible was a major  
motivation of a lot of things in cpptasks.  I know that the Eclipse  
CDT team was aware of cpptasks, but I'm not sure what if any support  
Eclipse has for CDT.  You may want to check our mailing list archives  
for mention of Eclipse and theirs for mention of cpptasks.