>>>>> "PP" == Paul Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PP> I would really prefer to see properties, including ${}, get
PP> evaluated at runtime.
Guess we are close to starting a vote on this.
PP> When code requests project.getProperty("lib.dir"), the
PP> PropertySheet recognizes that the property is an unresolved
PP> (complex? dependant?) property and does the immediate
PP> substitution before returning the property.
I didn't go that far in my line of thought. I was thinking of delaying
${} expansion to the point where the task in question was going to be
executed, basically storing the AttributeSet from the build file
together with the task in target and call ProjectHelper.configure
on the task right before Task.execute is called.
This would also mean
<property name="lib.dir" value="${build.dir}/lib"/>
had a fixed value, constructed from the value build.dir had when this
task (if you want to call <property> a task) was executed.
Stefan
