Drew Davidson wrote:

Great, just try to find it in

   http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

Oh, it's in "Optional Tasks": what does that mean? Only with the ant optional jar? How do I know someone will have that who tries to use my build file? Why is it optional? Which Ant developer made the arbitrary decision that this "echoproperties" gem should be "optional" instead of "core"?

The documentation is IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE. I wish that I'd saved myself the time and effort to write this because Ant's documentation was written and organized by a 4 year old. Thanks for making me angrier.


Maybe the intent is to motivate you to buy a book on Ant - the JBoss principle of making crappy documentation available for free, so that you'll get sucked in and then have to pay for something better. I think somebody wrote one on Ant a while ago... ;-)

 - Dennis

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