On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 01:42, Diane Holt wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, the question of being able to set a property based > on derefencing another property came up again. There's also a bug filed > about it (#1733), and a patch was attached to it that allows for this > functionality. I picked that up and tried it -- see: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=99383728324770&w=2 > Think we should make it an optional task?
nope. It is functioality that will be obsolete in Ant2. > And finally -- what should we do about the <foreach> task? Given how many > times over the past couple of months people have been pointed to picking > it up from the archives, should we go ahead and make it an optional task? > (Or would PeterD become apopletic at the very idea? :) Naah he'll just -1 for reasons already stated. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
