The ant manual, of all things, says the following:
It is highly recommended to avoid the line version when possible. Ant
will try to split the command
line in a way similar to what a (Unix) shell would do, but may
create something that is v
different from what you expect under some
How can I ensure that a given target will always run before any others
regardless of what is specifed on the command line? I have a build file
that depends on a single parameter (property) to define output directories
and other properties. I'd like to be able to check that this property has
been
