> -----Original Message----- > From: Nico Seessle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant.java + inhert proeprties flag > > > first time I had to use Ant/CallTarget in moderately complex manner and I > > realized that what a whole bunch of people were saying ages ago was right. > > Overiding/not-Overiding things does suck ! So what do you thing of adding > > an attribute "inheritproperties" for ant task which only inherits current > > build files properties if set to true. Defaults to false for backwards > > compatability ? > > "false"? Doesn't it put all the properties in there by default? (at least > for antcall it does). >
In the 1.2 release, the properties of the parent override those of the child in <ant> and <antcall>. Haven't tried the latest stuff from CVS yet (I'm a chicken). :) +1 for me on this idea, although the committers are nearing a 1.3 release so this may have missed the train. I've been working on a little modification to <ant> that has a 'propertyfile' attribute so the user can specify a file to load the properties from.
