At 02:06 PM 6/12/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> At 03:25 PM 6/11/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>>
>>>Do you want to explicitly prohibit <import lib="${mylibrary}" />?
>>
>> What use would that be?
>
>I don't really know,
Well I think it is just evil. I would hate to see something like the
following in java/python/other languages. And I would also hate to see it
in ant ;)
import java.net.${class};
>but I also don't know why people need a way to
>define the project's basedir on the command line - I only know they
>do.
I know why some people do it (hint it has to do with generic build files
and is a hack because ant does not have templates). Other people use it as
a generic reusable script (I have seen it used to update/manipulate
projects from CVS and specifying "." as basedir).
Cheers,
Pete
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