Hi All,
Just been playing with the <delete ...> task. I noticed that the
behaviour of this delete task is slightly different that what the
documentation describes.
When using the quiet="true" option, the documentation says:
If the file does not exist, do not display a
diagnostic message or modify the exit status to
reflect an error. This means that if a file or
directory cannot be deleted, then no error is
reported. ...
However, I noticed that when I try to delete a file that doesn't
exist with quiet="true", I still receive a diagnostic message:
[delete] Could not find file /home/crafterm/src/java/test.jar to delete.
The grayness is because in Delete.java, line 251, the log statment is
made regardless of whether quiet is set or not.
It's easy to change - simply add an 'if (!quiet)' test before the log
statement made.
But, I wanted to ask first, do others see this as a mistake ?
IMHO, when quiet="true", I expect to see nothing, just like rm -f,
especially if the file doesn't exist.
Either way, the code or the documentation needs to be clearer about
what 'quiet' does. I'm volunteering to do it, if we can come to a
consensus about what 'quiet' should do ?
What do everyone else think ?
Cheers,
Marcus
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