Just some thoughts.
1) I find that the properties relative to ant such as ant.home should be resolved.
Since we can put the basedir to any directory, it then starts to be problematic when you have a basedir different from current directory. The ant location (ant.jar and optional.jar) are completely lost, thus you cannot fork a JVM without hardcoding the location of these into the build.xml.
2) I also think that there is a need for a ant.class.path that is the same as java.class.path but resolved of the same reasons given above.
Additionaly and not related to paths:
3) A <ant> task should have a property 'failonerror' (or 'haltonerror' see 4)).
4) We need to choose between 'failonerror' and 'haltonerror'. They are both used in tasks. I guess we should take care of this for 1.4 or already chose one and deprecate the other for 1.3.
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St�phane Bailliez
Software Engineer, Paris - France
iMediation - http://www.imediation.com
Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my company.
