----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:53 PM Subject: Re: <loadfile>, ant 2
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:52, Steve Loughran wrote: > > From the ant 2 guidelines > > > > >* add an attribute to <property> to read in an entire file as the > > > value of a property. > > > > > > [will need more discussion because of vote by Peter Donald] > > > > > > [REJECTED - veto by Peter Donald] > > > > Peter, do you remember why you rejected this? > > > Was it the principle of the > > thing, > > partially. The main reason people were proposing to use it was as a band-aid > to ant because ant did not support necessary functionality (namely selection > flow control). What was the use case you mainly wanted to put it to? Oh, I use it for different stuff -grabbing the output of some url fetch and feeding it in as a parameter to another task -grabbing output of a custom task that pumps to a file and replacing a token inside another file with that value -pulling in a list of mail recipients from a text file. > > > or just yet more <property> overloading that was niggling you? > > That is definetly an ugly ;) > > > If it was a principle thing then my little <loadfile> addition needs to be > > stared hard at before it makes it to a shipping build. Personally I find it > > powerful and handy, but that could be bias. > > Add it in. Its going to be at least June before there is anything stable > enough to replace the ant1.x tree and until then another bandaid wont hurt > too much - well as long as it doesn't effect the container part ;) ok > > BTW did you follow the semi-convention of using srcFile ? yup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
