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Subject: RE: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:31:19 -0000
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Thread-Topic: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes
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From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <jalberto@cellectivity.com>
To: "Ant Developers List" <dev@ant.apache.org>

> From: peter reilly [mailto:peter.reilly@corvil.com]=20
>=20
> b)
> I send an vote the week before about local properties being=20
> implemented by textual replacement or by using local=20
> properties. The result was:
>=20

The vote was about macrodef expanding attributes as local properties.
Just to make things clear.

>                            committers  others
>    local properties        2           1
>    textual replacement     1           4
>    +0                      1           0
>=20
>=20
> I would like to implement attributes using local properties,=20
> with a possible option to allow the script writer to specify=20
> textual replacement.
>=20

You are the committers and you do whatever you want, but I think this
is the biggest mistake that you can make to ANT (using locals).
Providing both, sounds even more confusing. It means you get the=20
bad side effects no matter what. (Or will I be able to say "DO NOT USE
LOCALS AT ALL"?)
If that is the case, then at least make it the default.

>=20
> c)
> I sent a vote on the syntax to use for texual replacement.=20
> There was a varied response. A number of people liked the=20
> notation @{x}.
>=20

That looks fine to me.

>  -------------------------------------
>=20
> I propose to commit local properties and implement attributes=20
> using local properties for the ant 1.6 beta3 release.
>=20
> If there are problems with use of local properties as=20
> attributes, this should be discovered very quickly.
>=20

I thought we discover them already.

Jose Alberto

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