On 06/17/2010 11:10 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
Ant 1.8.1 uses the prefix when expanding ${x} inside the file and thus expands ${foo.y} to "x" which makes sense in that it makes the property file self-contained.
When is this an advantage?
There is an open bug report against 1.8.1 that wants the old behavior back <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49373>.
Indeed, the 1.8.1 behavior looks like a bug to me.
(3) allow different behavior of the tasks and document it.
Probably recommend this. Don't know much about <loadproperties> but breaking the established behavior of the widely used <property> task seems a bad idea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org