t; wrote: Hi Dean,
${} refers to the value of a property.
if / unless attributes refers to the existence (i.e. name) of a property.
IMHO, the different notation is reasonable.
However, this syntax and behaviour is pointed out explicitely in the manual:
->Using Ant->Targets
Cheers
Rainer
I filed this bug regarding the use of the if and unless attributes of :
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44315
Matt Benson pointed out that the problem is that you don't use the ${} notation
when naming a property in an if or unless attribute. This is confusing because
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