Hi all,
there is an undocumented feature in ant - the ant-type attribute.
It was added when the original add(Type) code was put
in.
It allows one to replace a class (y) in addX(Class y) with a
typedef as follows:
<typedef classpathref="my-class-path"
name = "mypath" classname="org.example.MyPath"/>
<mytask>
<path ant-type="mypath" path="."/>
</mytask>
I do not think that it is used anywhere as:
1) it is undocumented
2) it is hard to understand
3) add(Type) as been added to most tasks that need them
4) it is not complete see: http://marc.info/?l=ant-dev&m=106854472219108&w=2
5) the ant 1.7 resources framework should be the way to handle
the use-cases.
I would like to remove the feature as it complicates the
code of RuntimeConfigurable and IntrospectionHelper and
makes it more difficult to add new features (for example to handle
restricted types).
I propose the following:
1) add a warning in ant 1.7.1 that is triggered if the feature is used -
this should root out examples in the wild.
2) remove the code in ant 1.8.0.
Vote:
+1: I agree with the proposal: [ ]
-1: I do not agree with the proposal: [ ]
0: I do not care either way: [ ]
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