+1 to addint it across. It is invaluable - especially for cases like commons/tomcat builds that generally require to set a property before building em.
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:40, Erik Hatcher wrote: > Contrary to what I've said before about making sure the external > interface of 1.5 does not change with bug fixes, I'd like to propose > that we port the addition of the file attribute on AbstractFileSet to > the 1.5 branch. This minor addition makes life so much easier, and I'm > using this new attribute in all my builds now as well. > > Before this addition, to get a fileset containing only a single file > when that file is referred to by a property, you had to get a pointer to > its parent directory somehow. With property immutability and the > possibility that someone could override whatever property you use for > the parent directory, its not that safe. > > I have two conflicting personal reasons for and against adding this to 1.5. > > For: I'm going to be travelling around a bit soon speaking on > Ant/XDoclet and all my example builds are using the 'file' attribute > because its so much cleaner. It would be nice if the attendees could be > up and running with my samples with a released build of Ant 1.5.x > (although I'll likely bundle my version of Ant with any samples I > provide just to be on the safe side for now). > > Against: My book does not document the 'file' attribute, of course, and > that would take it a bit out of synch, although its all backwards > compatible and we can add that to our errata list. > > But the benefits to the Ant community outweigh any arguments against > adding it, IMO. > > So, here's my +1. > > Erik -- Cheers, Peter Donald The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. --Jules Feiffer (cartoonist) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
