On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:52, Steve Loughran wrote: > From the ant 2 guidelines > > >* add an attribute to <property> to read in an entire file as the > > value of a property. > > > > [will need more discussion because of vote by Peter Donald] > > > > [REJECTED - veto by Peter Donald] > > Peter, do you remember why you rejected this?
> Was it the principle of the > thing, partially. The main reason people were proposing to use it was as a band-aid to ant because ant did not support necessary functionality (namely selection flow control). What was the use case you mainly wanted to put it to? > or just yet more <property> overloading that was niggling you? That is definetly an ugly ;) > If it was a principle thing then my little <loadfile> addition needs to be > stared hard at before it makes it to a shipping build. Personally I find it > powerful and handy, but that could be bias. Add it in. Its going to be at least June before there is anything stable enough to replace the ant1.x tree and until then another bandaid wont hurt too much - well as long as it doesn't effect the container part ;) BTW did you follow the semi-convention of using srcFile ? -- Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | Despite your efforts to be a romantic hero, you will | | gradually evolve into a postmodern plot device. | *------------------------------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
