On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this right so far?
You've explained it a lot better than me, thanks ;-) > Did we decide whether the current projects "Workspace" properties > would be accessible after <antcall /> (via it's "Workspace" > properties presumably) ? Currently, "Workspace" translates into "user property" and therefore the original workspace would be part of workspace of <antcall>. We've not made that explicit, but we probably want to keep that (at least I do and I read your parens above along the same line). >> And then there is <projectref> - could you expand on this as well >> please. > > When I refer to <projectref/> I mean exactly the same thing that it > meant when it was originally proposed last year and not the many > subsequent "interpretations". Thanks - things become difficult when words get redefined too often. > Basically projectref is simply a way for one project to refer to > another (kinda makes sense eh?) so that it can be included in the > same dependency graph. OK. >> TaskContainer scope will of course be needed by things >> like an <iterate> task. > > quick lets make propertys immutable then ! ;) wouldn't help that much, you can always invent your own "variable" mechanism and perform replacement for your "child" tasks yourself in a container task - I guess this is what you mean by "going to absurd length". ... and then I think an <iterate> should be possible to write, but you knew that. 8-) Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>