> There's a certain arrogance here that's frequently > annoying. Please don't confuse arrogance with care. There are some parts of this dish which are best stirred slowly.
Speaking for myself, I want to be sure that adding some fundamental features doesn't make a hotch-potch of individually cool features but a whole which is confused and inconsistent. After all, this thread was started by someone, not a committer, questioning why Ant has if/unless attributes at all. You can't please everyone. What may seem cool and obvious to you may not be to someone else. As an example, there was a fair amount of negative reaction to just deprecating all the old <filecopy> et al tasks even though that was the right thing to do. Conditional processing within Ant, today, is already a hotch-potch to some extent so a little care is advised. Conor
