I think some kind of property ant.policy.references.inline or something could be set to turn on old behaviour
We've somehow never done it, but maybe we should have a version attribute on <project>, and increment it whenever we introduce a BC breaking change? I'm not sure it's practical to provide both the old and new behavior when Ant changes some fundametal. Imagine having to support 1.5-style mix of parse-time and run-time element processing, instead of all UE a la 1.6? Something that we could do maybe in this case is gather at parse-time a list of all ids, and on using an unknown id, consult this list, and if finding a match, issue a more informative error message? Not great, but keeping the old and new behavior, especially when the old one was wrong, I'm not a bug fan of. --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
