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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: loading tasks from jars for Ant 1.5
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:38:55 +1000
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:21, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> > I agree in general. I think, however, once we adopt this mechanism we
> > would almost immediately need to handle name collisions in the <task>
> > and <datatype> definitions. Your proposal does not cater for this.
>
> One simple proposal would be as you say, to allow aliasing:

+1 to aliasing

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Cheers,

Pete

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