We have a policy of keeping stupid historical defaults. Peter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jesse Glick <jesse.gl...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 08/18/2010 02:27 PM, Matt Benson wrote: >> >> I would still guess that more builds than not DON'T need to compile >> against Ant itself. > > Of course; at least an order of magnitude more. But those that do will be > *broken* if your suggested change is made, whereas those that don't get a > *warning* currently. My inclination was to err on the conservative side and > retain compatibility even at the cost of a little inconvenience. > > Call a vote if you want to change the default and break compatibility. 1.8.0 > and 1.8.1 have the warning, so a break in 1.8.2 would only affect those who > ignored the warning for two prior releases. I don't know if Ant generally > has a policy for fixing stupid historical defaults, like failonerror=false. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
