Peter Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Because it does damage the functionality of Ant - see above. > > Only if you ignore the possibility of changing the execption throw > to a warning message - see above.
You are right - didn't think about this option. > Whatever. I've modified ant locally to do what we need, but I > figured it was a useful enough sort of thing that others might want > it as well Haven't heard the opinion of others yet - in my projects the concept of "owner of a target" doesn't make too much sense YMMV - and I can do all extra stuff I need in the description attribute common to almost every tag you find in Ant. > and it would be nice to not have to integrate the change each time > we choose to move to the latest revision of ant. I know what you mean, this is what made me create the <patch> task a while back. I've yet to hear the opinion of others on your proposal (ignore unknown attributes but warn), I wouldn't veto the change though. Stefan