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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:17:46 +0300 (EEST)
From: Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@davisor.com>
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Subject: Re: criticism: property handling (here: no overwrite)
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On 12 Jun 2001, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> the value of a property (you can already do that in Ant 1.x, but have
> to use a script or a custom task to do so).

Not strictly true. At least in 1.2, the <available> tag can override
property settings. Just make sure you're checking for something
that's always there -- like the buildfile itself.

//Mikko