using <target name="x" if="${foo}">
seems to be very very strange..


Peter



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2009-09-24, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> <target if="${foo}"/>
>
>> will only be executed if a property named ${foo} exists (unexpanded) -
>> in Ant 1.7.1. and Ant 1.8.0 - or if expanding ${foo} returns something
>> that equals Boolean.TRUE (Ant 1.8.0 only).
>
> This part is false, I just re-read the code.  It will look up a property
> named like the expansion of ${foo} - and it's been that way in 1.7.1 as
> well.
>
> This doesn't change the rest of what I wrote, you'd still need
> <target if="${foo}"/> if you wanted to skip a target if foo evaluated to
> "false".
>
> Stefan
>
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