On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:01, Paul Hammant wrote:
> Given the whole picture you should strive for a perfect fix :-)  I'm
> sure the problem is with Ant, 

nope - the problem is the build file writer ;)

> in that when antcall is invoked all relative pathelements should be 
> corrected. 

Impossible to do because there is no way to type values. That is why 
<property/> supports the location attribute (which resolves to absolute 
filename) however the user must explicitly use this.

> In that world we'd be fine,
> but build must work for people who have downloaded source and not got
> from CVS.  I think perhaps we should lean on ant.properties more and
> <echo>warnings</echo> if ant.properties indicated paths are missing.
>  i.e. Force the builder thru a few iterations of setting up the env,
> before a successful build.

Sorta sounds like a good idea. Can yoiu expand?

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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