on 5/18/00 2:18 AM, Stefan Bodewig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The responses I did get boiled down to "we agree that properties are
> confusing, that there should be some changes and that we don't want to
> make Ant a new programming language".
>
> Let me address the first two points separately.
>
> "properties are confusing":
>
> The property tasks are evaluated in the same order they appear inside
> the XML-File. It doesn't matter whether they are inside targets or not -
> they are executed by the parser before anything else happens.
Nit: properties aren't tasks -- they are just XML tags that happen...
> The main changes are that tasks get instantiated at runtime, just
> before they are actually executed, and are expected to access
> properties through the project. Note there is no mention of the ${}
> construct at all.
Yes, the ${} need to die die die and go away. Or at least the way that they
behaive today.
> Most (all?) people involved agree that some way of conditional
> compilation - or more generally conditional task execution - is
> needed, but there are different opinions about how to do this.
I still think that conditional compilation can be handled inside the javac
task. :)
.duncan
