Actually, why doesn't -projecthelp tell you what the default target is??
fern On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I believe that ant should default to a particular target (be it > > main/start/begin/entry/whatever) much like http urls default > > to port 80. If > > you want a different target then you should specify it on > > the command line > > (like you specify port 553 in url). > > > > Why not "comence" or "comienzo" or "primo" why should it be in english? > > If you were proposing that the "default" attrribute should be optional and > in that case consider to be "main/start/whatever" then I would see no > problem, but saying that everyone around the world has to have a target > called "main/...", that I do not think is reasonable. > > > >to say that removing default will make things significantly > > easier makes no > > >sense to me. > > > > Not removing default - making the name of the default target standard. > > Cheers, > > > > Removing the "default" attribute. What is so dificult about it. It is in the > first lines of the project file. Why do you think knowing the default target > in "main" as oppose to reading right there that the default target is > "myMain" why would that make anything clearer for any one? > > The only way to know what the thing will do when you call ant, it to go read > the entire file, default or no default. > > Jose Alberto > > > Pete > > > > *-----------------------------------------------------* > > | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | > > | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | > > | everyone gets busy on the proof." | > > | - John Kenneth Galbraith | > > *-----------------------------------------------------* > > >
