On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> why does <available> and <condition> (and <uptodate>, <tstamp>, and
> some others) break non-user property immutability?  Is this
> inadvertent or intentional?

inadvertent AFAIK.

> I'm (mostly?) of the opinion that <available> and such tasks that
> set a property based on some condition should force the
> setting/unsetting of the specified non-user property.

I can follow you here - of course this would be breaking backwards
compatibilty (sigh), but I'd consider builds that relied on
<available> not doing what it is supposed to do broken.

Stefan

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