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From: "Paul Philion" <philion@acmerocket.com>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Some thoughts about runtime evaluation of properties
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:58:06 -0400
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Stefan -

That's a reasonable way to do it (and easy to implement), unless
someone wants to implement something like:

<property name="dist.bin.dir" value="${dist.dir}/bin"/>
<property name="dist.lib.dir" value="${dist.dir}/lib"/>
...
<target xyz...>
    <property name="dist.dir" value="../package1/dist"/>
</target>
<target zyx...>
    <property name="dist.dir" value="../package2/dist"/>
</target>

Note: I'm not suggesting that that is something that should be
supported, or that it is something anyone would ever use. I'm just
trying to point out potential issues.

My goal is to make ant build files as simple as possible, both the
write and understand. Immutable properties are very attractive (for
their simplicity) but they do produce problems.

- Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
>
> This would also mean
>
> <property name="lib.dir" value="${build.dir}/lib"/>
>
> had a fixed value, constructed from the value build.dir had
> when this
> task (if you want to call <property> a task) was executed.