From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> In mutant you will get this > >> D:/antdev/bugs/paralleldata/build.xml:4: parallel does not support > >> the "fileset" nested element > > > > Which will break ANT1 projects. > > Not really, as it doesn't work in Ant 1.x, so there cannot be an Ant > 1.x build file that relies on it. >
Actually, if we are talking about the same thing, this is not true. Core depends right now on being able to put any datatype as a task. Take a look at the current implementation of <description>. It is a clever idea, I admit, but what can we expect from users if we accept code like that in core? Here we have a DT whose only purpose is to produce a side effect with its declaration. > Maybe we should make it impossible to use in 1.5 as well, with yet > another ugly hack in UnknownElement of course. > We can do it without more hacks, just regularize the rules and apply them. > > It is more than a year since people are complaining that <typedef> > > could not be used as a toplevel task. > > I'm in nit picking mode today, <typedef> has been introduced eight > months ago (and doesn't work in any released version of Ant). > Well I guess time is not going as fast as I first though. Jose Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
