Re: Ant Task For Compiling Kawa-based Projects?

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Jared D. Cottrell wrote:
> Has anyone considered / written an Ant task for compiling a mixture of
> Scheme and Java files without having to enumerate every single
> dependency or supply a fixed build order?
>
> The tricky part is, of course, the Scheme dependency analysis both
> between Scheme source files and when referencing Scheme-sourced
> classes from within a Java source file.  But even if the task got
> things mostly right and provided some hooks for providing guidance
> when it got confused, it seems like such a feature would be useful to
> many projects using Kawa.

I'm hoping to be able to compile a set of Kawa source files, without
having to worry about which file depends on which.  This would allow
circular dependecies, and reduce the hassles of using Kawa with Ant.

It wouldn't necessarily help with mixed Java/Scheme dependenies, though.

Some recent Kawa check-ins are partly motivated by this goal.
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