> I'm kind of reluctant to support changes in ant's language, which is > effectively what this is. We currently have a consistent model, > "properties get expanded in attributes". The one place that is broken > (target depends), we get complaints. if we make it possible to bypass > stuff, then we'd have more code to test and support, and for what -more > inconsistency?
IMHO this is just something (3rd party) task writers would benefit from. I don't think Ant has to support users who extend PropertyHelper and its hooks, either. These somehow change the ant language too. > Stick to nested text and not only do you get the behavior you want, it > works in ant1.6 I'm happy backward compatibility isn't an issue yet for me (well, maybe I should be sad ;). Stefano Marsili __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
