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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 12:21:18 -0700 (PDT)
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To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org, Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com
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Subject: [Bug 1326] Changed - "ant -find -projecthelp" fails,
 even in build file directory

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1326

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  file name.
  
  (2) -find and -buildfile are different, as you only need to give a filename to
! -find (like -find build.xml) and no path at all.
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  file name.
  
  (2) -find and -buildfile are different, as you only need to give a filename to
! -find (like -find build.xml) and no path at all.
! 
! ------- Additional Comments From Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com  2001-05-08 12:21 -------
! Regarding:
!   Just place -find last on your command line and you don't need to specify the
!   file name.
! 
! Please reconsider this for future versions of Ant.
! 
! Having to put a certain option last can get really irregular and inconvenient.
! You can't take an existing command line and simply add targets to build (e.g.,
! you can't define a Unix shell alias like 'alias build="ant -verbose -find").
! 
! (I suppose always adding the default file name (using "-file build.xml")
! works around that problem, but that makes a simple option much longer.  
! 
! Can you consider using the syntax "-find=xxx.xml" (that is, "-find" activates
! the find feature with the default file name; "-find=x.xml" activates it and
! sets the file name for which to search)? 
! 
! That syntax lets options take optional arguments without requiring that
! some argument be provided to avoid consuming the next command-line token
! as the argument.
!