> From: Kenneth Olving [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hoping that I've managed to navigate all the etiquette for > posting a patch, here goes: > > Change made in brief: > The default ProjectHelper (ProjectHelper2.java) has had two > lines changed so when parsing attributes for the > project/target tags, values will be passed through > Project.replacePropeties(). > > Rationale: > Given a build.xml like this: > <project default="${foo}"> > <target name="bar"> > <echo message="Hello world!"/> > </target> > </project> > it allows for running this using something like this: > ant -Dfoo=bar > and get the expected result. This type of usage isn't very > useful of course; my desire for this functionality comes from > that I'm using Ant embedded in my tool and that tool makes > sure there are appropriate properties set. >
I feel unconfortable about this change. It introduces some sort of dynamic programming with I do notknow which consequences. What happens when people use <antcall/>?, what happens when depends lists contain such variables? I think it is a very bad can or worms, unless we first have a rational for it from ANT, the language, semantic point of view. Kenneth, in your particular case, why can your particular tool just call "ant bar", I see no reason for limiting to use the default target. Jose Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
