Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't see though what feature can be attained from "relying" on the XmlProperty failing for file not existing. Can you please post a use-case to compare with mine? Hey, I didn't say your use-case was inval

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see though what feature can be attained from "relying" on > the XmlProperty failing for file not existing. Can you please post > a use-case to compare with mine? Hey, I didn't say your use-case was invalid, quite the op

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Erik Hatcher
I think letting gracefully not fail if the file is missing is more appropriate since it should operate like . I think the Gump litmus test is a reasonable enough way to judge how much of an impact our changes might have on others when it comes to backwards compatibility. Its not a complete te

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Conor MacNeill wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Ok. I don't see though what feature can be attained from "relying" on the XmlProperty failing for file not existing. Can you please post a use-case to compare with mine? Nicola Ken, Backward compatability isn't about what is sensible or what should

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Conor MacNeill wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Ok. I don't see though what feature can be attained from "relying" on the XmlProperty failing for file not existing. Can you please post a use-case to compare with mine? Nicola Ken, Backward compatability isn't about what is sensible or what should

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Conor MacNeill
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Ok. I don't see though what feature can be attained from "relying" on the XmlProperty failing for file not existing. Can you please post a use-case to compare with mine? Nicola Ken, Backward compatability isn't about what is sensible or what should be. Someone, no mat

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually I think that it fixes a bug, rather than be a RFE, since it aligns behaviour with the normal property task. The same has been said about 's inheritall="false", but still we've kept the "buggy" behavio

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I think that it fixes a bug, rather than be a RFE, since it > aligns behaviour with the normal property task. The same has been said about 's inheritall="false", but still we've kept the "buggy" behavior as the default.

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On 9 Jan 2003, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't fail if the file doesn't exist in This breaks backwards compatibility with 1.5, some people might rely on the failure in the first place. Should we add an attribute (like ignoremissingfile with false being the default) to swit

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 9 Jan 2003, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't fail if the file doesn't exist in This breaks backwards compatibility with 1.5, some people might rely on the failure in the first place. Should we add an attribute (like ignoremissingfile with false being the default) to switch between 1.5 an

cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2003-01-09 Thread bodewig
bodewig 2003/01/09 00:23:17 Modified:.WHATSNEW src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java Log: Don't fail if the file doesn't exist in PR: 15674 Submitted by: Nicola Ken Barozzi Revision ChangesPath 1.336 +2 -0 jakarta

cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2002-06-21 Thread stevel
stevel 2002/06/20 23:30:30 Modified:src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs Tag: ANT_15_BRANCH XmlProperty.java Log: more javadoc updates. Added some @todos where it seemed appropriate. Revision ChangesPath No revision

cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2002-05-20 Thread ehatcher
ehatcher02/05/20 13:28:36 Modified:src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors Tag: ANT_15_BRANCH BaseExtendSelector.java ExtendFileSelector.java FilenameSelector.java src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/rmic Tag:

cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java

2002-04-22 Thread ehatcher
ehatcher02/04/21 17:05:09 Modified:docs/manual coretasklist.html credits.html src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs XmlProperty.java Added: docs/manual/CoreTasks xmlproperty.html Log: patches provided by Nicola Ken Barrozi. documentation added. the "[]" and i