> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > At 06:02 2/11/00 +1100, you wrote: > >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? > > yep ;) > I agree it is useful (reduced the size of my elisp code > heaps) but I never > felt comfortable with it. >
Well JDE already can look up the directory tree for a prj.el file. With that I was able to locate my build.xml file eventhough in my case the build file is not in a parent directory but on a parent sibling project/src/com/..../*.java project/utl/config/build.xml as the default ant behaviour was useless. I agree 100% with changing this to be an optional feature and maybe make it more powerful: ant -find utl/config/build.xml will search for "utl/config/build.xml" up the directory tree. The current behaviour is just: ant -find build.xml And yes we should probably have some maximum number of dirs searched. Now that would be useful to me. Jose Alberto
