The behavior as described in the WHATSNEW is what was initially was done. However this broke too many builds - with references to out-of-band ids. So the code was modified to store all the out-of-band ids and if the reference could not be found, to look up that and if found to use that reference and to output a long message.
In ant 1.8.0, this out-of-band resolution will probably be removed. One could change the <isreference> implementation to report false for out-of-band references, but I do not think that is a good idea. Peter On 8/30/07, Kevin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > One of the significant changes in 1.7.0 was, apparently: > > > > " * Defer reference process. Bugzilla 36955, 34458, 37688. > > However, my version of ANT 1.7.0 (binary download) seems to behave in the > > 'old' way. I have looked in WHATSNEW under SVN, and can see no suggestion > > that there was a problem. So, my question, how can I get 'isreference' to > > "properly" identify whether a path, for example, has been set at the point > > where the condition is tested. > > > > See build file and test results. I was expecting the output to be: > > [echo] test.path setting = false > > I've just tested this with svn trunk compiled today (1.7.1alpha) and I > get the same behaviour - an 'unexecuted' target containing the ref and > an executed target using the ref and the ref set: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/workspace/ant-core-trunk$ ant -f test-id.xml > Buildfile: test-id.xml > [echo] Apache Ant version 1.7.1alpha compiled on August 30 2007 > > test: > Warning: Reference test.path has not been set at runtime, but was found during > build file parsing, attempting to resolve. Future versions of Ant may support > referencing ids defined in non-executed targets. > [echo] test.path setting = true > > BUILD SUCCESSFUL > Total time: 0 seconds > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/workspace/ant-core-trunk$ > > Kev > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
