Dominique, > Indeed ;-) What you demoed Conor is precisely the use case I > need, which was > very much inspired by Knut's past posts. I also like Knut's > <override-target> name better, as it's more explicit. > > The one thing I'm not too sure about is the <override-property> and > <override-path> ones... Why are these needed? Property > immutability is one > tenet of Ant we shouldn't lightly consider. >
For me it is useful, as I actually instantiate a template which I don't use as a buildfile on its own anywhere. Let's say I have a property called "build-dir". A project can now change that location using <override-property> and still keep the same "compile" target. -- knut
