[BUILDR-383] artifact().from(task_dependency) should not trigger task_dependency if artifact exists

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Core features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex Boisvert
• Created: 26/Feb/10 17:50
• Updated: 22/Jun/11 10:09
• Resolved: 27/Feb/10 22:16

Description

As discussed in this thread:
http://markmail.org/thread/znfqqa45fxrpd4lg

There's a problem with artifact().from() where if it's passed a task dependency (e.g. FileTask), then the file task will either

1) always be invoked – even if the artifact already exists

2) fail with an error such as,

Buildr aborted!
Don't know how to build task '/home/boisvert/tmp/buildr-zip2/target/zip/google-collect-1.0/google-collect-1.0.jar'

if the FileTask.to_s returns a non-absolute pathname (which is the case for Rake's default FileTask, but not Buildr's file(...) method)