John, History mainly.
InAnt1 the attribute setters are called at parse time and so, property resolution (variable is a misnomer) must occur at that time. You don't want to place the burden of the resolution on the tasks themselves. In Ant2, I think we all agree that at parse time, a model of the build file will be constructed with unresolved properties. These will be resolved just prior to task execution. Conor ----- Original Message ----- From: "John.Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: variable resolution question > Is there a reason for Ant not resolving variables in > attributes at the time it's ready to execute? This > would make much more sense to me, since the values of > those variables can change with the loading of > properties within different targets. > > Just curious. > > John > > ===== > John Casey > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Omni CodeWorks, Inc. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >
