Hi. I am using a <replace> ANT task in my build.xml in order to implement a kind of "conditional compilation" in my Netbeans Java project.
Replacing works as expected, except for one point: it is able to replace strings also on read-only files (which then become read-write after replace). This is not a desired behavior, in my opinion (at least, not by default), and it causes issues with our source version control system. I think <replace> should FAIL on read-only files by default. You may want to consider adding a "force" attribute, such as for the <copy> task, in order to force replace on read-only files. Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Marco Sambin
