From: "Tim Vernum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ! Regarding: > > ! Just place -find last on your command line and you don't > > need to specify the > > ! file name. > > ! > > ! Please reconsider this for future versions of Ant. > > ! > > ! Having to put a certain option last can get really > > irregular and inconvenient. > > ! You can't take an existing command line and simply add > > targets to build (e.g., > > ! you can't define a Unix shell alias like 'alias build="ant > > -verbose -find"). > > > ! Can you consider using the syntax "-find=xxx.xml" (that is, > > "-find" activates > > ! the find feature with the default file name; "-find=x.xml" > > activates it and > > ! sets the file name for which to search)? > > > FWIW, I agree entirely with Daniel. >
Interestingly, the windows shell will remove the "=" in that argument and pass two arguments to Ant. Wierd. huh? Since we have a -f argument already, I suggest we make -find not take an argument and use the -f argument to denote the file to be found. Conor
