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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:57:28 +1000
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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Lions, Import, and ProjectRef, oh my !
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At 05:37 PM 6/13/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Have a look at original proposal and reasoning behind it
>
>Could you please point me to the original proposal of <projectref> and
>the reasoning behind it?

AntFarm and the discussion about it is in the archives. The author of it
gave a fairly cogent explanation about it when first proposed. The details
are in the code though.

Cheers,

Pete

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