On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:30 pm, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
> How is this different from say
>
> <property name="result" value="${testloc}"/>
> <property name="testloc" location="testdir"/>
>
> <target name="default">
> <echo message="Result is ${result}"/>
> </target>
>
> It doesn't work either.
>
> If you delay the configuration of <path>, but not the expansion of
> properties, properties and data-types will get even more inconsistent.
>
> This doesn't mean that your idea is bad, maybe we should apply the
> same to property expansion as well then? I'm very unsure, though.
>
Well, it was a fun experiment :-) but I don't think it is going to fly.
(Classfileset test fails because there are multiple elements with the same id
and these rely on "execution" to set the id value)
Conor
