Marcus, I think this has been fixed in CVS. We changed the log level of the message to verbose. We call that quietly verbose :-)
Can you check a recent nightly build. Conor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus Crafter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:06 PM Subject: delete task & documentation > 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 > -- > ..... > ,,$$$$$$$$$, Marcus Crafter > ;$' '$$$$: Computer Systems Engineer > $: $$$$: Open Software Associates GmbH > $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse > ;$, _/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany > ' /( &&& > \_&&&&' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > &&&&. Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 > &&&&&&&: After Hours : +49 69 49086750 > >
