----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:27 AM Subject: Re: -quiet mode, annoying output....
> At 02:13 9/1/01 -0500, Jason Rosenberg wrote: > >Are there plans to make -quiet flag have the > >behavior indicated below, by default, instead of > >having to set the -logger, and modify echo, etc.? > > There was discussion about changing behaviour of echo a while back but a > bunch of people complained so it wasn't changed I believe. Thou I would > like to see the change I don't think we can in the Ant1.x series. > >It seems to me that we need to have a standard > >flag, which probably should just be the current > >'-quiet', which has the effect of only printing > >out a visited target when that target has some > >output. > > Nope - we aren't going to change anything that is not backwards compatable > - at least thats what I believe we decided. Backwards incompatable changes > will liekyl wait till 2.0+ > > Can we not change the behavior, then, by introducing a new flag, such as -terse, or something?
