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Subject: Re: if/else structure
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 18:07:38 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominique Devienne" <DDevienne@lgc.com>
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Subject: RE: if/else structure


> That's actually a good idea, this 'requires' thingy? But I'd rather have
it
> on <project> or <target>, as an attribute.
>
> Consider the use case where a build file uses new feature of ANT 1.5. How
is
> it going to fail for 1.4.1 users? A crypt task or type not found? Or type
> <mytype> not allowed? Of course, adding this attribute now to 1.5 would
also
> fail miserably for pre-1.5 users, but in the future, whenever new version
> come out, ANT could fail gracefully, with a proper message?


have you seen what error message ant.15 gives on an unknown task?


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