On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Ulrich Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Input task allows user interaction during the build process by
> displaying a message and reading a line of input from the
> console (System.in).

Well, a long long time ago we wanted to abstract the input system out
into a system taht allows a GUI frontend to live on top of Ant, a
browser frontend a ...

As there always seems to be something that is getting a higher
priority, we may as well include this task to at least have something
to get us started.

> Optionally a set of exit arguments can be defined via the exitargs
> attribute.

This is where it overlaps with <fail>, I'm not sure how we want to
deal with it.  We had a similar discussion with <available> - in some
situation it may be better to have a fail attribute on <available>
then to use a marker property.  Back then we decided against the fail
attribute of <available>.

> Optionally a property and or userProperty can be created from the
> value entered by the user.

No userProperty, please.  These should strictly be reserved for
properties set on the command line or via the child elements of <ant*>
IMHO.

Stefan

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