--On Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:24 PM +0000 Robin Green
<greenrd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Should we always support that? Also if we are going to support it, we
>> should
>> agree on a single delimiter (or set of delimiters, if necessary). A
>> common method to tokenize such delimited lists would then be possible.
>> Naturally I vote for the comma as delimiter :-)
>
> +1
>
> : is bad on win32, ; may be confused with : (I've done it before!)
> Comma is unconfusing and shouldn't be used within filenames, so no
> problems there.
Hi,
A few comments on delimiter choice:
i) There is a platform dependant path separator already, but I assume we
want build files to be cross platform.
ii) ',' is a legal character in many file-systems (and turns up in RCS
generated filenames all the time :)
iii) ':' is already used inside of Project.translatePath(), and given
that the rest of Ant uses unix-style paths it would seem that ':' is the
most consistant thing to use.
later,
\x/ill :-}
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