stevel 02/04/15 22:48:37
Modified: . WHATSNEW
Log:
document that"$"->"$"; retaining "$$"->"$"
...I think new items should go below this one
Revision Changes Path
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Index: WHATSNEW
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/WHATSNEW,v
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--- WHATSNEW 15 Apr 2002 13:20:25 -0000 1.251
+++ WHATSNEW 16 Apr 2002 05:48:37 -0000 1.252
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Changes that could break older environments:
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+* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
+ Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
+ the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
+ a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.
+ We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a
+ build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with
+ the double $$ sign rule.
+
* <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and
<write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text
to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may
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