On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The quote I see is: > > "It will be possible to reassign values of properties via a built-in > task." > > This came from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/features.html - is > this the definitive reference for Ant2 design?
It is a document I've put together from <http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/requested-features.txt> which reflects all things we've voted upon by then. So the text file is a lot closer to definitve than that. And I do have an archive of that votes, in case you want to see them - looking them up in MArc should be easy enough, in our case: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=98519986700002&w=2&r=1> 8-) > two non-committers causing trouble! :) That's not my point. Neither that you or Jose Alberto are non-committers, nor that anybody is causing trouble. I value your opinion and you know that. It's just that I disagree and that I had to point out that I'm not the only one. > The overridability (thats a bad term since its really the first to > set wins) is one of the most powerful and pleasant features of Ant > 1.x This is a feature of the <property> task and a feature I don't want to take away from it. I just want to keep it possible to have mutable properties. > Tasks shouldn't be allowed to override properties. Why not? Really, if people know what they are doing, why not? Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
