Another downside of the HEAD version: As I pointed out last week, the way CVS HEAD works breaks backwards compatibilty in a subtle way because <taskdef>s will no longer be executed before the task definitions are encountered by the parser right now.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Costin Manolache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The downside is that if tasks like <echo> or <javac> are used at top > level, they will be executed when -projecthelp is called. And when the parser detects an error after some of the tasks have been run ... > Unfortunately it is not possible to implement -projecthelp > and also allow <javac> _and_ allow import in a clean way. Not that I'd like any of the solutions too much: * marker interface for tasks to be run at parser time. * implement <import> by something that is not a task. > The only solution is to document this and explain the > behavior Third option, and probably the one I like most. But I still want to wait a few days to see whether anybody finds yet another solution to make that a fully supported +1. > Stefan - can you live with the top-level processing in embed ? My opinion is not that important, just one of a whole bunch of committers. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
