On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 11 Jan 2005, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Log: add note for reason for using setproperty >> rather than >> > setnewproperty in available.java >> >> Widely knows as the Diane Holt trick 8-) > > Diane was really before my time, what's that about?
Diane leaked that you could re-set properties using <available> on [EMAIL PROTECTED] around the time of Ant 1.3 or 1.4. It was picked up that quickly by users that we've been unable to pull the backdoor. > Also, it looks like that deprecation message has been > there since 1.5 I thought it must have been in there even longer. > ... BC = empty threats? ;) We even removed deprecation messages from the code ... <http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Zip.java?r1=1.70&r2=1.71> Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
