Stefan Bodewig wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indeed, I have myself wondered (though I never have
bothered to bring it up) why propertyfile and
echoproperties are an optional tasks when they have no
external dependencies?
Any old-timers have any insights?
Unless Conor jumps in, it won't get any older than me.
These tasks are by far not the only tasks that are listed as optional
but don't have any external dependency. At one point in time we used
the core vs. optional distinction much the same way we now use "part
of Ant's distribution" vs. "ship as an antlib". Some tasks simply
ended up in optional because they weren't considered *that* useful for
the broad audience.
It's been a long time since anybody brought up the "why is X optional"
question. I guess most people have settled with, "it is called
optional, but it is always there" by now.
Stefan
I'm new to Ant and have been wanting to understand optional tasks
better. I'm trying to decide between using ReplaceRegExp
and PropertyFile (which is more what I want, but has the
comment bug). I wanted to figure out which to use based
perhaps on the library for it. But the documentation doesn't
seem to mention clearly which libraries they reside in.
Am I supposed to waddle through the URLs in this table
to find that out?
http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies
Or are all optional tasks included in ant 1.6.2?
I don't see this mentioned in the documentation.
(I'm big on documentation -- I've submitted three doc enhancement
requests already this week, and one was fixed within 10 minutes.)
-Doug
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