Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" <dev@ant.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of foamdino@gmail.com designates
 209.85.128.184 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
        b=AdN5DEsXUrEw1tzemPi4JoIAq2Z1chsyxa/GLZ0C7wRaNIbHqSTf1KHZa85abaSIaUufHiiaa6364oSMRZmwKRyaUFBoSNVjzYMgm1A+9VGrKTUlAYIMKDJGgCgPAwkRByt9ZoKwVVc580jCFmfwWgJ1wJG5nWHc/LeB6ezDIaU=
Message-ID: <ab8e556c0805300831y2ae23f6ej9a5c9fef1c7e761e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:31:37 +0700
From: "Kevin Jackson" <foamdino@gmail.com>
To: "Ant Developers List" <dev@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Adding magic properties for targets?
In-Reply-To: <y1uzlq8dxcc.fsf@v30161.1blu.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <y1uzlq8dxcc.fsf@v30161.1blu.de>

Hi,

> Colm's patch in
> <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44980> adds two
> new magic properties, one for the build's default target and one for
> the targets specified on the command line (or via <*ant*>).
>
> IIRC such properties have been suggested many moons ago and rejected,
> but now the dev community is a different one and maybe we do see some
> things differently today.  I know that I do, i.e. I'd probably add
> them today.
>
> Before I start to discuss gritty details of a really trivial patch,
> let's have a quick poll so we know whether such a feature would be
> acceptable.  If anybody out there would reject either property, could
> you please raise your hand?

I probably wasn't around when these properties were first discussed,
but I don't see any harm in allowing access to what are essentially
static values.
+0

Kev

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org