>>>>> "PD" == Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> BTW, what will be instead of properties in a future version?
PD> No idea - no one will give me a straight answer :P
Hmm, I guess the better question was "what will replace the ${}
property expansion mechanism?" - and no, you won't get a straight
answer either 8^).
I don't think that we are going to drop properties, they will be
transformed into different beasts though.
I don't have a clear picture of it myself yet, but I can share a few
things - not all of them have been discussed or even been agreed on.
* Properties are going to be rich objects like filesets, patternsets,
java.io.File objects, ...
* Expanding properties should not be the parser's responsibility, put
it into the task is my current favorite. Something along the lines of
<javac dest.dir.ref="build.classes" ...>
where the .ref indicated that build.classes was the name (or ID) of a
property and not a filename. The javac task would know that it was
handed a reference and ask Project for a property named src.dir as
soon as it's going to be executed.
This is very vague, I know.
Stefan
