"Magesh Umasankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I don't think Ant should sacrifice backwards
> compatibility - in such cases, Ant Dev's approach

Is compatibility really sacrificed here?  Sure, the change should be
documented like any other change, but can people really expect a new
version of a tool like ant to behave in exactly the same way as the
previous version?

> Wrongly assuming decisions like these have no negative
> costs, may impact existing buildomations in a variety of
> ways.

Automatically retaining questionable decisions because of an
unwillingness to break compatibility reduces the overall effectiveness
of the tool.

But I should probably ask: why was the decision originally made to
make the default "no-debug"?

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joe

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