> > A couple of weeks ago I posted a patch to the Zip/War/Ear tasks > > concerning update and required attributes (Stefan, do you > > remember?). > I do - I think it affects the current functionality stronger than just > a bugfix, so I'd prefer to postpone it to Ant 1.5.
Ok. I'll keep using my modified version until 1.5 comes out. ;) Thanks for the quick reply. --- I'm thinking about a further improvement of my patch and I'd like to have the list's opinion... I think "update=true" should disable required attributes only if the war/ear actually exists, otherwise one could use it to "cheat" and create a war/ear without specifying a webxml/appxml. Please let me know if it does make sense, otherwise I won't even try to implement it.
