On 27 May 2002, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> > Would adding 2 attribute, one to force a new classloader and one to
> > force a specific loader disambiguate the problem ?
> 
> It would, if you long for 1.5+ only build files.
> 
> You've introduced the magic property to make it possible to write
> build files that are compatible with 1.4.1 and 1.5 at the same time,
> right?  If you use new attributes, you can't do that any longer.

Actually, the attributes are for 1.5+ build files, and I'll use them
in build files after 1.5 significantly replace 1.4 ( probably ~ 6 months).

Until then - the 'magic' property and no attributes, so the build
files will work with 1.4.1 ( unmodified - but with the old restriction
that cpptasks.jar must be copied in ant/lib ).

> We better advice people that they should not use the magic property at
> all but use the loaderref attribute instead - if they can live with
> Ant 1.5 build files.  I see this magic property as something that
> should be deprecated (but we don't do that any longer) right now.

I partially agree. Explicit attributes are cleaner than magic properties.

Costin


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