https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49918

Richard Elkins <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Richard Elkins <[email protected]> 2010-09-21 
05:11:44 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> See thread "warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set" on the dev list. There
> was no consensus to break backward compatibility in this way.

Jesse,

Sorry but I really cannot see the logic of this action in version 1.8.  

It seems that the default value for the includeantruntime parameter was
reversed with insufficient consideration for the consequences to users.  This
action caused 100s of my own build.xml files to now require editing in order to
avoid this warning; I am certain that 1000s (if not millions) of Ant users
around the world have been impacted.  Googling bears this out.

I understand that includeantruntime="true" is useful to the Ant developers and
to some individual Ant users but it violates a basic premise of software
development: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".  And, as
the Ant document states, it can render a build.xml that is
environmentally-sensitive which, in most cases, is not a good idea (I agree
with the documentation).

-Richard

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