Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 71031 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 15:39:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 15:39:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 21796 invoked by uid 97); 30 Dec 2001 15:39:42 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 21780 invoked by uid 97); 30 Dec 2001 15:39:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 21752 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 15:39:41 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01c19148$98232f00$c040d6d1@compaq> Reply-To: "Magesh Umasankar" From: "Magesh Umasankar" To: "Ant Developers List" References: <20011225193026.68328.qmail@icarus.apache.org> <200112292225.fBTMPDc05898@mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au> <00f101c190f2$b605bfc0$e148d6d1@compaq> <200112300559.fBU5xva01846@mail012.syd.optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:42:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N From: "Peter Donald" > > ok, but I understood you OKed some sort of a wrapper. > > I guess I must have got confused - which thread was this in again? It http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100891536700002&r=1&w=2 Specfically, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=100897943010533&w=2 > probably would have been useful to show code snippets as I talk better in > code ;) Well, the code is there now and you have expressed your opinion ;-) > Not a -1 more a -0. If you want to fix it then do it if you don't consider it > in need of fixing then feel free to ignore me ;) I guess I will just back them out so that we can discuss this further. But here is how I look at it. You pass a non-numeric string to a setter that takes in, say, Integer as parameter, it is still going to 'validate' it to see if it a numeric or else throw a NumberFormatException. So, in effect, SrcFile et al. hasn't really introduced as yet an unseen/unknown concept. > If the ant task itself is used outside ants container it is likely going to > have issues anyway. Both Ant1.x and Ant2 will most likely continue to behave > in this manner so I don't consider this a great loss. We have suggested that we will be working to provide API support in the 1.9 action plan. http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/actionlist.html#embeddor > Do whatever you feel like - I was basically just saying - erk! Then, erk it is ;-) Cheers, Magesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: