Hi, I was wondering if anyone else thought being able to specify wildcards in the depends attribute of the target would be helpful. Where I work, we use a lot of build fragments that get imported, and we would like the ability to allow the developer to add/remove build funtionality easilt without disrupting the basic workflow. essentially something like: build.xml imports base-java.xml and java-checkstyle.xml base-java.xml: java-checkstyle.xml ... run checkstyle ... This way a developer can add/remove something like checkstyle simply by adding/removing the import. This would also allow the developer to use a different syntax checker simply by the import. I think the most reasonable way to do this would be to modify the addDependency method in Target.java. Something like this: public void addDependency(final String dependency) { if (dependencies == null) { dependencies = new ArrayList(2); } if (dependency.endsWith("*")) { String key; final String prefix = dependency.substring(0, (dependency.indexOf("*") - 1)); final Enumeration e = getProject().getTargets().keys(); while (e.hasMoreElements()) { key = e.nextElement(); if (key.startsWith(prefix)) { dependencies.add(dependency); } } } else { dependencies.add(dependency); } } any thoughts? - Jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org