done.
At 11:59 20/4/01 -0700, J.D. Fagan wrote:
>I submitted the below suggestion a few days ago without realizing that I was
>late in requirements submission (I just joined this mailing list). Anyways,
>just wanted to re-submit so you can record/add it to your requirements doc
>under section "VI. entries that have been submitted too late".
>
>JD
>
>--Feature suggestion for Ant 2.0 (or later)--
>
>Would be cool to have recursive property resolution built in to Ant tool.
>Best to illustrate with this contrived example:
>
><project name="suggestion" default="anthill" basedir=".">
> <property name="name" value="foobar"/>
> <property name="dist.${name}.dir" value="dist/${name}"/>
>
> <target name="anthill">
> <!-- normal property resolution -->
> <echo message="name = ${name}"/>
>
> <!-- recursive property resolution (inside-out) -->
> <echo message="dist.${name}.dir = ${dist.${name}.dir}"/>
> </target>
></project>
>
>Ideally, the following output is desired from "ant anthill" command on this
>project:
>
>anthill:
> [echo] name = foobar
> [echo] dist.foobar.dir = dist/foobar
>
>Currently, ant will yield this undesired output:
>
>anthill:
> [echo] name = foobar
> [echo] dist.foobar.dir = ${dist.${name}.dir}
>
>
Cheers,
Pete
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