Ant/Javac: building as many files as possible?

From: GG (grisha_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 07/14/04

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    Hi all,

    This is not necessarily an Ant question, nor a standard sun Javac. I
    am using both, and all suggestions are welcome.

    I would like to build as many classes as possible from a given
    "project". In an Ant script, I just supply all classes from a given
    "project" (or "module" -- the idea is that the code base is divided
    into modules), and even say failonerror="false". At which point the
    build script would take files from source control and build them, in
    the order of specified dependencies. That is, if module X depends on
    module Y, I want to build module Y into a .jar, and then supply it to
    module X. Now, as much as I would like people not to check in stuff
    that does not compile, sometimes it happens. Given that this is not a
    big project (yet), I think it's worthwhile to allow people to make
    mistakes, but still to be able to build whatever is possible. But if I
    supply all the .java files on the same command line to javac, once one
    compile fails, the whole thing fails. I ended up writing my own
    CompilerAdapter for Ant to take care of that, but I wonder if there's
    a better way -- if something fails, let it fail,
    but compile whatever you can (and build a .jar).

    So, I guess, the question is clear. What do you suggest? (Technical
    solutions, only, please (as opposed to "policy" solutions).

    Thanks.

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