> We cannot simply add
>
> public void setFork(boolean b) {
> setFork(""+b);
> }
Small point: I hope we wouldn't add that anyway. That method of string
conversion is evil (IMO). See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/java/stringconv.html
> as IntrospectionHelper then will chose this method over the one taking
> a String argument - which means fork="/my/path/to/javac" would become
> the same as fork="false". Not good.
>
> The only solution I can see: change fork back to boolean and add a
> new attribute for the forked executable. This again is backwards
> incompatible to the change I've made more then four months ago and
> people may have started to depend on it.
How many things depend on the order in which the IntrospectionHelper picks
things? My guess is "quite a few, and we don't know how many private Ant
classes do anyway" :(
Other than that... not sure :(
Jon
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