On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:25, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > Hopefully ant2 will have some *explicit* method for a lower level to
> > override the upper levels, one that can be grepped for so that the
> > build engineer can catch it if someone overrides something they
> > shouldn't in a lower level buildfile.
>
> I prefer a mechanism that allows the build engineer to specify which
> properties may be overridden and which must not. Making it impossible
> to override "something they shouldn't" is even better than having to
> grep for inappropriate usage every now and then IMHO.
This concept seems to align with the notion of "public" properties (ie ones
that can be accessed and set from another project). Effectively the "public"
properties become the data interface through which things can be modified.
(as compared to operation/target interface).
So we could have public properties (things that can be set outside the
project), public targets (things that can be called from outside project) and
coresponding private proeprty/targets which are controlled internally by
build file.
Cheers,
Pete
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