On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:21, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On 16 Nov 2001, Diane Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > /home/rubys/jakarta/jakarta-ant/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/gzip.xml:22: >> > Src attribute must not represent a directory! >> >> seems Magesh's patch has introduced a backwards compatibility >> problem 8-( > > I would describe it as fixing a bug. Shouldn't a task that fails to > do anything throw an exception rather issue an error message ?
Agreed, I just looked into the testcase and saw it was expecting that the archive has actually been created, strange. The old task would create an empty gzip archive and log an error message. I think we should add a mild warning to WHATSNEW and fix the testcase, I can do that. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
