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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32006 new optional 'basedir' attribute for property task [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-02 22:34 ------- Ian, I am going to have to be ruthless and mark as wontfix. 1. you get exactly the semantics you want with <property name="base.dir" location="C:/projects/otherProject" /> <property name="myPath" location="${base.dir}xml/foo.xml" /> (though you should *not* be hard coding paths into portable files) 2. changing the type of a setter for one of the core ant tasks is absolutely forbidden. That is the programmatic API to ant, and one that gets used a lot, especially by extension tasks. There may be no uses of that method in the ant codebase, but we don't know what other things use it, and have to assume the worst. You can overload an existing option, but then you have to deal with the existing one may still be called. 3. we have enough functionality stuck in that task already. What would the semantics be of setting basedir for any other operation? An error? Then we'd need the error checking code -and the tests that it worked. 4. If you do not find point #1 adequate, then the solution would be some explicit task to set a property to a bound dir: <setlocation property="foo" base="c://something" subdir="subdir" basemustexist="true" subdirMustExist="true"/> There may be some merit in that, as you can add more tests (base must exist, must be a dir, perhaps), and it may be more readable. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
