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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17101 ant.bat mangles command line arguments [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-17 03:04 ------- Thanks. This change was introduced to eliminate the special casing of different Windows operating systems variants. Whilst, as you say, this worked in Ant 1.5, it only did so for NT based systems (Win2k). Windows 95/98/ME users would always have had the problem you identified. Ultimately the root cause is that Windows strips out = characters in arguments. In Win2k, this doesn't happen if you get the line as a whole (%*), only if you parse it as single args (%1, shift). On Win95, %* doesn't work. What a mess! We could reintroduce the WinNT/2K specific behaviour, along with the 4NT stuff and a lot of complexity, and leave the Win95/98/ME users behind or we could agree that on Windows you need to quote any arguments which contain the '=' character. In your case this would be either ant "-Dargs=x=y" or ant -Dargs="x=y" Both work. I'm going to mark as WONTFIX for now, but reopen if you feel this needs more work.
