Thanks, Peter. It's a shame 1.7.0 doesn't do what it is described as doing, as that sounds just what I need.
Is there any way to do what I DO want to do, which is to check whether an id has been set? George > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 August 2007 10:35 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: refid still not behaving as expected in 1.7.0 > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
