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It doesn't make sense to me either. I think it's a bug. I have some 
patches to org.apache.tools.ant.Target and 
org.apache.tools.ant.types.Description that I'll bring up on the 
developer list. Description currently goes through ALL targets and 
appends any <description> elements to the Project description. It should 
only append any <description> elements in the implicit target. I have a 
patch for that. I also have a patch for Target that will use any child 
<description> elements as the target description, which is really nice 
for documentation of the purpose of a target.

Dale


Dominique Devienne wrote:

>>From: Peter Reilly [mailto:peter.reilly@corvil.com]
>>
>><description> could be in a <macrodef> in an antlib got from an <import>
>>and it would still add it self the the project.
> 
> 
> Again, this doesn't make any sense to me!
> 
> 
>>The problem is that it is an "active" datatype, it adds itself to the
>>project. Most datatypes are passive, the enclosing task makes use of them,
>>or an id is used to specify that it is to be added to the project as a
>>reference.
> 
> 
> Hopefully <description> is the only such weird type... --DD
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