Re: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-12-02 Thread Bevan Arps
At 05:50 30/11/2001 -0500, Erik Hatcher wrote: Ant users are very fortunate to have a crew of committers that put their foot down and prevent many seemingly useful features from making it into Ant's core - and Ant is sufficiently extensible such that folks that wish to break the rules can do so

RE: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-11-29 Thread Matt Lyon
Hi, Please pardon my ignorance, but I wonder if you can clarify for me a bit what you mean by this: Are you relying on available's back door to changing property values? Are you simply asking if people are using available at all? If so, my answer is yes, most definitely. I have a series of

Re: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-11-29 Thread Don Taylor
Boy have you let the cat out of the bag now! I never thought about using the available task this way, the ideas that gives me... And now you want to remove it?! ;) --- Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question: Are you relying on available's back door to changing property values?

RE: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-11-29 Thread Matt Lyon
Doh, Sorry I was such a dummy, I thought about this a little more and figured out what you were asking. I change my answer to no. ; ) Cheers, Matt -Original Message- From: Matt Lyon Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:49 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: [POLL] property

Re: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-11-29 Thread Jeff Turner
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:47:24AM -0500, Erik Hatcher wrote: Quick question: Are you relying on available's back door to changing property values? There's a backdoor? Cool!! How do I use it? ;) But seriously, I've never seen a project with greater disparity between what users want (perl),

Re: [POLL] property immutability hacks

2001-11-29 Thread T Master
It's called OpenSource ! - Original Message - From: Jeff Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [POLL] property immutability hacks But seriously, I've never seen a project with greater disparity between what