Conor and the Ant team,
First, thank you all for the help.
Secondly, I must say that Ant is an example of excellent software. As you
have noted by the age of my build, I have been using Ant for quite some
time. In all that time, this is the first time I have ever needed to join
the list and ask a question. I can't express enough how much I appreciate
this. With the variety of open source software I use, it is impractical for
me to be involved in each project when my goal is simply to use the
software. Thank you for saving my time not only with Ant's functionality
but also with its quality and simplicity.
My respect to the Ant team,
David Blevins
Co-Founder, OpenEJB
www.openejb.org
> From: Conor MacNeill
>
> David,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Blevins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 9:05
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: What's the status of Properties?
> >
> > Moving my properties out of the init did work. It would be
> great if this
> > was documented somewhere as a difference between the versions.
> >
>
> That is a fair criticism. The version of ant you have been using is a
> version that was bundled with tomcat 3.1, I guess. It is pretty old, was
> never really documented and predates the ant project as a separate entity.
> We consider ant 1.1 as the first real release of ant as a standalone
> product. The choice of 1.1 as the first release number was recognition,
> somewhat, that there already existed some prior versions of ant.
>
> The behaviour you mention was removed from ant while it was still part of
> tomcat. Most users have completed that particular transition now
> so we don't
> see many problems like your's these days. You may also find that you are
> unable to change the values of properties
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.1/bin/
>
> We do try to include build-breaker information for the later releases of
> ant.
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> Conor
>
