On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:50, Steve Loughran wrote:
> One further thing I was debating doing, but want to get a reaction first,
> is to tweak it so that if the target is "" then we treat that the same as
> undefined, and execute the default.

-1

I know people who use it with antcalls as a fallback. At one stage some of 
the Avalon build files also used it. I think it is an ugly hack but 
unfortunately it is here to stay now ;(

> This leads to predecessor question. Should the empty string be a valid name
> for a target. I think not, if we agree then we can stop it, and then I
> could set <ant target=""> to mean default.

definetly for ant2.

> Does anyone use the empty string as target name in their build files?

yep :)

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Cheers,

Pete

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