On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:45, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > 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.
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