Sounds like an overcomplicated, brittle and error prone way to develop code.
jon On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Marco Sambin - NeoLogica < marco.sam...@neologica.it> wrote: > Hi. > > I am using a <replace> ANT task in my build.xml in order to implement a > kind > of "conditional compilation" in my Netbeans Java project. > > Replacing works as expected, except for one point: it is able to replace > strings also on read-only files (which then become read-write after > replace). This is not a desired behavior, in my opinion (at least, not by > default), and it causes issues with our source version control system. > > > > I think <replace> should FAIL on read-only files by default. You may want > to > consider adding a "force" attribute, such as for the <copy> task, in order > to force replace on read-only files. > > > > Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > Marco Sambin > >
