AW: param hierarchy inverse to property hierarchy

2008-11-12 Thread Dieter König
Hi Jürgen, thanks for the explanation. I will ask the owner of ant1.xml. Your solution is great! Regards Dieter

AW: param hierarchy inverse to property hierarchy

2008-11-12 Thread Knuplesch, Juergen
Hello, Again: The behaviour of ANT is ok, because you need this very often! If you have no access at all to ant1.xml and this script is holy, so that no one is allowed to change it and you need to call target t1, then there is no way to change foo for target t2. But... You import ant1.xml, the

AW: param hierarchy inverse to property hierarchy

2008-11-12 Thread Knuplesch, Juergen
In my opinion, ANT is doing exactly what ANT should do. The param attribute is used to overwrite selected properties in the called target. Param is not a datatype like properties. Param is just used to set properties for a called task. So, when you use antcall with param, it should always set t