At 09:32 1/3/01 -0000, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
>One point is support of being able to express these defaults by properties
>is that then it is possible to change the values without altering the build
>file.
>
> ant -Dtask.javac.debug=true ......
>
>With a full language these may be more complex to do for users.
Yep this is already been proposed a few times - either this or full CSS
(which this is shorthand for). The only issue that anyone has identified
(that I remember anyway) is how to modify parameters on nested children.
Parameters such as
task.javac.classpath.exclude.name=**/*.name
were suggested but they didn't solve the whole problem. Still it is a
useful abstraction ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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