Fair enough, but notice that the fix to <subant> failonerror (or is it the keepGoing global switch) will swallow Errors.
In any case, is there concensus to do at least the RuntimeExceptions. Jose Alberto > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2004 07:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Trapping RuntimeExceptions form Tasks > > > On 04 May 2004, Erik Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why don't you feel comfortable catching Errors? > > Since Errors should only be thrown in unrecoverable > situations (that's the theory, I know). > > I don't think that Ant should continue after an > OutOfMemoryError for example There are others and we'll > never manage to enumerate all Throwables that we don't want to catch. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]