Hi https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62330 reminded me of something I wanted to discuss.
Sometimes people are simply not interested in the (error) output of a process started by Ant at all. This is not supported directly as we send output to the log unless you redirect it to a file or property. People work around this limitation by sending output to /dev/null on Unix or "nul" on Windows (which we broke) making the build file dependent on the OS. Or they write to a property that is never used, but this consumes memory. I suggest to add discardOutput/discardErrorOutput properties to redirector - and exec/apply/java for convenience - which would use NullOutputStreams to allow pumping of streams without storing the results anywhere. Does this sound reasonable? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
