Peter Reilly wrote:
On 10/16/06, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WARNING: reference y has not been set, attempting to resolve
>
> [echo] y is C:\Documents and
Settings\reilly\learning\a\refs\build.xml
I really think we should break BC here, with a good error message.
Keeping the old behavior would re-open the bug about the
not-defined-at-runtime ref being used. The fact that there would now
be a warning is not enough IMHO.
For a first pass, I propose an error message along the lines of:
Error: Reference y has not been set at runtime, but was found during
build file parsing. Ant 1.7 no longer allows referencing ids defined
in non-executed targets.
This could be done,
what do other people think?
My biggest concern is how to ensure that ant1.7 builds build files that
other people wrote. I dont want to have to edit random build.xml files
created by third party projects I download and build, just because they
(like me) got lazy. The fact that Ant has had a bad but stable way of
declaring references mean that we need to think of how best to move
people of it.
I would make it a non-failing warning for ant1.7, maybe an error in 1.8.
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