----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant-Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:02 PM Subject: Searching for build.xml
> As you may recall I expressed some reservations about the feature introduced > in ant 1.2 whereby ant will search up the directory tree for a build.xml > file > > I recently asked my sysadmin to install ant 1.2 on our Unix system and, > after reading the release notes, he sent me a colourful email, attached > below. > > Dose anyone else, or their sysadmins, think this is a problem? I've had a bad experience with the autosearch function where I had stuck a build.xml file in c:\ as some interim place to stick things some months ago. Then sometime this week I type and and it finds that file and runs with it because I am not quite in the place I think I am. No harm was done this time, but it gave me a bit of a scare. In a multiuser environment if someone could sneak in a build.xml upstream then a user could perhaps be engineered into running a potentially destructive build file. This isnt likely (you need an odd combination of rights to make it worthwhile), but conceivable At the same time, it is slightly handy. > > a. allow the sane to disable the feature with a command line > > switch (an environment variable is probably too subtle) I think a better approach than a 'search up by default' would be to have the search disabled by default, with a -search argument to turn it on (perhaps including number of parent searches). -steve
