Hello list, i have encountered a strange behaviour of ant scripts as property and param elements are using incompatible overwrite rules. Please let me explain in a small diagram.
- set some property - use antcall with inheritall=true - the called target tries to set the property again ==> first property is used - use antcall with some param (e.g. <param name="foo" value="bar"/>) - the called target uses antcall with param providing a new value (e.g. <param name="foo" value="bar2"/>) ==> called target uses second value (in the example foo would be "bar2") This means that if in a script an <antcall> using <param> is used there is no chance to overwrite that setting/property when calling that script. Am i right? Or is there a way to set such a parameter? Is this the desired behaviour of ant? In my opinion the same overwrite-behaviour for <param> elements as for <property> elements would be better. The user of an ant script would then always be able to set all the parameters or propertys. Best regards Dieter König
