Description Jeff McAffer 2003-02-10 22:03:48 EST

comment #6 in bug 30771 highlights the need for better control over when an 
extrernal tool builder runs.  On the one hand people do not want their ant 
scripts running on ever incremental build but on the other, there are cases 
where either a full build is too much work or hard to remember.  Yet if neither 
case is acceptable to the user, in what situation would they use an external 
tool builder?

Perhaps some middle ground could be had by allowing for the more detailed 
specification of changes that should trigger the builder.  For example, if you 
could spec that the builder should only be run if there are resource changes in 
a particular folder or a particular kind of file (e.g. *.java).  This would 
solve the case discussed in bug 30771.

This is not something for 2.1 as we are very late in the cycle but could be 
considered for 2.2.