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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:35:00 -0400
From: Matthew Inger <matti@sedonacorp.com>
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Peter.FLYNN@syntegra.com wrote:

>Since some of the tasks differ between 1.3 and 1.4alpha/beta, I want to
>perform different things for different ANT versions.  
>I can obtain the ANT version using the property ant.java.version, but is
>there some way to say:
>
>if ${ant.java.version} == "1.3" 
>   echo "Using ANT 1.3"
>else if ${ant.java.version} == "1.4"
>   do something else....
>
>
>Is this possible?
>
>Peter
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<target name="performtasks-1.3">
</target>

<target name="performtasks-1.4">
</target>

<target name="performtasks">
 <antcall target="performtasks-${ant.java.version}" />
</target>


however, i don't think that's the property you really want,
since ant.java.version actually returns the version of the current
virtual machine, not the version of ant.


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