From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Theres no point busting peoples build files for no good reason.

> Then dont generalize it. I think this change was in place ***before*** 1.4
> was released and thus has been around a long time.

The revision number 1.47 (Tagged for Ant 1.4) does not contain
the method setFile(File).  IOW, it has not been 'released' yet.

> Thus a lot of people are likely to have been exposed to it.
> Keep it undocumented and deprecate it but don't remove it.

Since we seem to have reached a stale mate, let me propose
a new set of guidelines with respect to introduction of new
attributes which just rename an existing one.

* Do not deprecate existing attribute names just for the sake
of aesthetics when adding new names meant to represent
existing attribute names.

+1 from me.

* Each alaised name should live in harmony with its 'aliasees'.

+1 from me.

* We call it a feature and let the user pick the attribute name that
most suits her taste.

+1 from me.

* We undeprecate all the renamings we have done
so far.

+1 from me.

* Let us face it: Given our track record, 6 months down the
line, we are going to come up with a newer, aesthetically
better standard.  So all we can do now is We do not commit
any name we don't see as the *current* naming standard.

+1 from me.

>
> Pete
>

Cheers,
Magesh

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