Conor wrote: >The following patch allows the srcDir attribute of Javac to have a comma >separated list of source paths.
There is a proposed javadoc patch which uses a semicolon separated list. Your patch has a comma separated list. The existing MatchingTask accepts either a space or a comma. And, of course, Javac uses the system dependent path.separator (so much for portable build.xml files). In short, we are slowly accumulating a patchwork quilt of ad-hoc mechanisms. I'd like to propose that in all cases we support nested XML elements. In many cases, I believe that this will be sufficient. If necessary, we can support delimited lists in attributes as an alternate syntax. An example of this approach can be found in the current version of MatchingTask.java. - Sam Ruby
