RE: pointer to half-hearted official MS.NET ant-ish tool
Dominique Devienne wrote:
> Not directly related, but I recently read that Maven similarly moved away
> from relative path to use absolute paths. They apparently prefix
> ${basedir} explicitly everywhere. I'm not following the dev forum, but
> thought the parallel was worth mentioning. --DD
Well - with the current semantic, at least one use case will be
forced to use the same style.
My experience so far is that using not one, but multiple path
prefixes is very good - ${libdir}, ${classes}, ${docs}, etc.
The relative paths are very convenient and nice for quick builds
and to locate files in the source tree - but I for target files
I thing it's far better to use prefixes.
Costin
RE: pointer to half-hearted official MS.NET ant-ish tool
Not directly related, but I recently read that Maven similarly moved away
from relative path to use absolute paths. They apparently prefix ${basedir}
explicitly everywhere. I'm not following the dev forum, but thought the
parallel was worth mentioning. --DD
-Original Message-
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:07 PM
To: Ant Developers List
Subject: pointer to half-hearted official MS.NET ant-ish tool
The amusing things is the tool
(a) requires fully qualitifed paths everywhere
"Fully qualified paths are more flexible than relative ones, but at the
expense of being cumbersome."
heh? relative paths is the key to cross-system portability.
