Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There seems to be an inconsistency in what can appear at the top > > level of a build file (not under any target). > > You're observation is absolutely correct, and I'm sure, this is > something that will be addressed with Ant2 in one way or the other. > Blame it on historical cruft Ant1 is carrying around and the curse of > backwards compatibility.
Do you think Ant2 can be different? Peter's reply wasn't encouraging. (Was he just talking about Ant1?: >Why not either: >- let any task appear at the top level, or that was -1ed ages ago as could lead to heaps of complexity. It could also lead to target-less scripts. >- define an initialization target (when a target has some distinguished > name like "init" or something, every other target implicitly depends > on it) This was done and users screamed for blood ;) ) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay Digital Focus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
