--On Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:24 PM +0000 Robin Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Should we always support that? Also if we are going to support it, we
should
agree on a single delimiter (or set of delimiters, if necessary). A
common method to tokenize such delimited lists would then be possible.
Naturally I vote for the comma as delimiter :-)

+1

: is bad on win32, ; may be confused with : (I've done it before!)
Comma is unconfusing and shouldn't be used within filenames, so no
problems there.

Hi, A few comments on delimiter choice:

i) There is a platform dependant path separator already, but I assume we want build files to be cross platform.
ii) ',' is a legal character in many file-systems (and turns up in RCS generated filenames all the time :)
iii) ':' is already used inside of Project.translatePath(), and given that the rest of Ant uses unix-style paths it would seem that ':' is the most consistant thing to use.


later,

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