Dear Ant developers, We are using Ant for building, deploying and testing real large projects (>5 Mio LOC). So our scripts became more and more complex workflow scripts instead of simple Ant-scripts. I do strongly believe that the simple change of more complex (expression language like) if and unless statement would reduce the size and increase the readability of our scripts by far!
Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Häfelinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:19 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: using multiple properties in the 'if' and 'unless' conditions Just out of curiousity: What would so bad introducing an "expression language"? After all, there's no need to express everything in (clumsy) XML just because we are able to do so. I believe that an expression language, escpecially for testing, would simplify Ant scripting considerably. Wolfgang. Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23-06-2006 05:54 Please respond to "Ant Developers List" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: using multiple properties in the 'if' and 'unless' conditions On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Paul Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the possibility of adding multiple conditions to the target 'if' > and 'unless' attributes ever been considered? Yes, but it hasn't come up often after Ant 1.4 ;-) > Are there any reasons why this change would be a bad idea? One of the reasons (and my main one) is that you'd soon need an expression language since simple listing two properties isn't enough? Does if="a,b" mean "either a is set or b" or "a is set and b"? And then the example above doesn't work since "," is a legal character inside of property names, as is " " or any other character. There could be a property named "a,b". Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
