On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:48, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It also would produce surprising results if people were expecting > > properties to behave the same as they do elsewhere in the build > > file. > > I must be missing something here, aren't properties behaving exactly > the same as they do everywhere else in the build file? > > The first property task wins (but you cannot be sure, which one may be > the first, of course). Properties defined outside are available in > the container and vice versa. In what way are they different?
My test file terned out to have a typo and so I assumed that properties where set are parse time for subelements - but I guess I was wrong ;) 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 | *-----------------------------------------------------*
