Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 53125 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2000 12:58:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ru.artificial-life.com) (193.125.198.3) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 4 Jul 2000 12:58:14 -0000 Received: from udaltsov.aliferus (UDALTSOV [192.168.3.240]) by ru.artificial-life.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id N8WFYBA2; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:57:31 +0400 Received: from ru.artificial-life.com (IDENT:svu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udaltsov.aliferus (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00548 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:57:22 +0400 Sender: svu@udaltsov.aliferus Message-ID: <3961DF31.B41696A3@ru.artificial-life.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:57:21 +0400 From: "Sergey V. Udaltsov" Organization: Artificial Life Rus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: subsitution in file names References: <3.0.5.32.20000704222311.00a09a20@latcs4.cs.latrobe.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > Well as a point Ant doesn't want to be as complex as make and this adds a > lot of complexity. Also property substitution will go away in a future > version of ant. Well, this would add complexity but also - usability. BTW, what will be instead of properties in a future version? > Well some similar functionality may be available with the path tags that > are in progress of being integrated into ant. As to the workaround ? Use > standard directories and let jar work with whole directory. OK, seems to be interesting. Thanks for the idea. -- Sergey V. Udaltsov svu@ru.artificial-life.com