RE: Musings: Conscript-uptodate targets

[Eric Brown]

I like this too.  It's flexible, and solves the problem.  One thing, though
- can there be some way to get the error status ($status) from within the
action?  That way the Command can (e.g.) send mail if one or more targets
fail.

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Knight [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:12 AM
> To: Gary Oberbrunner
> Cc: Zachary Deretsky; 'Eric Brown'; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Musings: Conscript-uptodate targets
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> > >>>>> "SK" == Steven Knight <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >   SK> I've thought for a while that directories could be 
> handled like
> >   SK> any other target, and that the dependencies of a 
> directory would
> >   SK> be all of the targets within that directory.  The practical
> >   SK> upshot is that I want to be able to do something like the
> >   SK> following to be able to tar up a subdirectory's derived files:
> > 
> >   SK> Command $env 'sub-dir.tar.gz', 'sub/dir', qq(
> >   SK> tar zcf %> %<
> >   SK> );
> > 
> > I like it.  It's not exactly the same as Zachary's model, 
> because you
> > can have more than one Conscript per directory or more than one
> > directory per Conscript.  But it seems like a good compromise to me.
> > Could this be extended to do something at the very end, when all
> > targets are built?  Zachary's model can, by something like
> > Construct-up-to-date (instead of Conscript).  Maybe there could be a
> > special dir target of "/" or something?  Then we wouldn't need
> > AfterBuildAll.
> 
> Exactly.  If all your targets are under the top-level directory, you
> could AfterBuild '.' to have an end-of-build action.  If you install
> things outside the top-level directory, AfterBuild of the installation
> director{y,ies} or AfterBuild '/' would accomplish the same thing.
> 
>       --SK
> 
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