feature literals for task dependencies

[Stephen Haberman]

Hi,

I wonder if you could specify task dependencies with feature literals, e.g.:

@Depends(#compile)

function jar() {

}

I suppose the trick would be that if two tasks both depend on compile, I would not be surprised if each #compile literals ends up with a new object instance, so it'd be hard to tell that they both pointed back to the same underlying function.

Might be more straightforward to just use object instances, e.g.:

compile = task(\ ->

   ...

)

jar = task(\ ->

  ...

).depends_on(compile)

Eh, the task/block syntax is a little funky. Sorry, I'm not an expert on build tools, I was just checking out aardvark and got side tracked. Feel free to ignore me, aardvark as is already looks much nicer than ant. :-)

Love the name, btw.

- Stephen

[Brian Chang]

Hi Stephen -

I like your style! We absolutely are planning on getting feature literals in for target dependencies.  If feature literals are available now in Gosu 0.8 (I haven't taken a look in recent weeks), this will be one of my top priorities after I update our Gosu libraries.  Carson Gross should key in - Carson?

Don't worry, we won't have to worry about multiple object instances of feature literals - they're still merely target name references that we feed into Ant, which then takes care of target execution.

Brian

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