I've already said I worry about 'magic' behavior, but I do admit the find capability to be useful. Basically, I want it OFF in a production environment, but ON for developers.... so, with a flag, where it's off by default, and could be turned on at the command line or by the file that set's user defaults, I think we can have our cake and eat it too.
Jason Dillon wrote: > I think that a -find or -search flag would suffice. Granted, that users > could just write a wrapper script around Ant, but this searching mode is > quite common, and it would be a shame to have all of that duplicate code > everywhere. > > --jason > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > > > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > As I've been the one who committed the code in the first place, I feel > > > a bit responsible for it. > > > > > > As for JDE I'm still hoping to get the submission of Jason and Jose > > > Alberto merged to form a jde-ant.el that we can distribute with Ant > > > and plug into JDE's project management stuff. > > > > > > > On this regard, I guess part of the problem was that I looked at Jason's > > code and mine ad they where so different I wasn't sure how to mix them. > > And I was not ready to give up on mine ;-0 > > > > I will try to follow up with Jason on defining some objectives so that > > we converge to something we both think is powerful enough for most users. > > > > > >>>>> "JAF" == Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > JAF> I agree 100% with changing this to be an optional feature and > > > JAF> maybe make it more powerful: > > > > > > JAF> ant -find utl/config/build.xml > > > > > > There seems to be consensus on either removing the feature altogether > > > or making it optional. I like Jose Alberto's version best so I'm going > > > to change Ant to follow his proposal unless there are objections. > > > > > > This means Ant 1.3 would break older build environments in this case, > > > what are we going to do about this? > > > > > > > Notice I would still live "ant" to be the same as "ant -f build.xml". > > So that we only break very new environments. > > > > Jose Alberto > >
