Comments on: Ant Fu http://www.digitaldimsum.co.uk/2007/10/19/ant-fu/ Bite sized info snacks for the digital generation Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris Johnston http://www.digitaldimsum.co.uk/2007/10/19/ant-fu/#comment-413 Chris Johnston Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:35:39 +0000 http://www.digitaldimsum.co.uk/2007/10/19/ant-fu/#comment-413 In response to the public/private thing, one trick that can be tried is the inclusion of a description. When you do ant -p, only targets with descriptions will show up. This is one way of hiding public targets that you may not want people to know about. Personally, in the flow targets, I like to use antcall instead of depends. I find this to make the target more readable and communicates the intent of the target better then using depends. For me, a target that depends on other targets, but doesn't do anything doesn't make sense. Whereas a target with a series of antcalls shows me the intent of that target. In response to the public/private thing, one trick that can be tried is the inclusion of a description. When you do ant -p, only targets with descriptions will show up. This is one way of hiding public targets that you may not want people to know about.

Personally, in the flow targets, I like to use antcall instead of depends. I find this to make the target more readable and communicates the intent of the target better then using depends. For me, a target that depends on other targets, but doesn’t do anything doesn’t make sense. Whereas a target with a series of antcalls shows me the intent of that target.

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