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Subject: Re: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 26 Nov 2003 12:09:43 +0100
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, peter reilly <peter.reilly@corvil.com> wrote:
> a)
> I sent a vote last week on local properties
> and the result was:
>                            committers  others (+ votes in bugzilla)
>    have local in ant 1.6   2           1 + 6
>    not                     0           0
>    +0                      1           0
> 
> Based on this and other feedback I think that local does
> belong in ant 1.6.

I agree with your opinion (that locals should be there, after all I'm
one of the two +1s), but disagree with the conclusion that this is
going to happen.  2 +1s is simply not enough to make a vote pass.

I'm not trying to argue from a procedural standpoint but merely from
the fact that a change like this needs community support - and it
doesn't seem to have it.

> b)
> I send an vote the week before about local properties being

s/local properties/macrodef attributes/

> implemented by textual replacement or by using local properties.
> The result was:
> 
>                            committers  others
>    local properties        2           1
>    textual replacement     1           4
>    +0                      1           0
> 
> I would like to implement attributes using local properties,

-0.8

most if not all things that could be done when we implement the
attributes as local properties are possible with textual expansion.
Textual expansion enables things that local properties don't.

> I propose to commit local properties and implement attributes using
> local properties for the ant 1.6 beta3 release.

-1 on both.  Both parts lack committer support.  We could try to
revote or something.

Stefan

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