I don't think this (emitting a warning) was ever the case. Setting and
overriding defaults this way is one of the basic techniques in Ant. It
should probably be made more explicit in the manual.
-- Niklas Matthies
On Tue 2010-11-30 at 14:30h, Scot P. Floess wrote on user:
>
> Actually, nothing at all... I swear at one time I thought a warning was
> emitted when doing that... It was at that time I started using the
> enclosed macrodef... Perhaps I am just remembering wrong...
>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Niklas Matthies wrote:
>
>> How is this different from just
>>
>> <property name="SomeProperty" value="Some Default Value"/>
>>
>> ?
>>
>> -- Niklas Matthies
>>
>>
>> On Tue 2010-11-30 at 14:11h, Scot P. Floess wrote on user:
>>>
>>> Here is something I like to use... I macrodef'd it out so I can call it
>>> for many properties that require default values...
>>>
>>> <macrodef name="default">
>>> <attribute name="property"/>
>>> <attribute name="default"/>
>>> <attribute name="description" default=""/>
>>>
>>> <sequential>
>>> <condition property="@{property}" value="@{default}">
>>> <not>
>>> <isset property="@{name}"/>
>>> </not>
>>> </condition>
>>> </sequential>
>>> </macrodef>
>>>
>>> This works with stock Ant (meaning you don't need Ant-contrib or any
>>> third party libraries)...
>>>
>>> To use:
>>>
>>> <default property="SomeProperty" default="Some Default Value"/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, ritchie wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My ant script takes a value for a property at runtime(-Denv=xxx), if the
>>>> argument is not passed i want the value to be set as a default arbitary
>>>> value. How to accomplish this?
>>>>
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