RE: [aspectj-users] incremental generates prompt

["Gregor Kiczales" <gregor@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Setting the 'incremental' option to true in the ant file 
> generates the
> > following prompt during compiling
> >
> >      [iajc]  press enter to recompile, r to rebuild, q to quit:
> >
> > How can I get rid of this ?
> 
> The incremental option will put the aspectj compiler in an interactive
> mode, and this is the expected behavior. Why do you want to put it in
> interactive mode? Chances are you don't want to be using that 
> flag in your
> ant script.
> 

What allows it to do fast incremental compilation is that it holds
onto "live" objects representing the aspect structure after each
compilation.

When you hit enter, it can quickly figure out what has changed and
recompile only as much as is needed.