Peter Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've thought about "fixing" the core to produce relative paths, and > adding a boolean attribute (relative="true|false"?) at appropriate > points to describe the way this is handled, but I doubt anyone is > comfortable with modifying the code this fundamentally.
Furthermore, all tasks that use a setXXX(File) method rely on Ant's behavior, it is not a bug but a feature - as it ensures that all relative paths in your build file get interpreted relative to your project's basedir. Stefan