RE: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes

2003-11-27 Thread Peter reilly
Hi Jacob, Most of this discussion is on the dev listing. I can understand your confusion. A brief history. (You can search with keyword local at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&r=1&w=2 to get the full gory details) When macrodef was written originally, attributes were (and are) implemente

RE: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes

2003-11-27 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 07:03 AM 11/27/2003 -0600, you wrote: The problem with this is that the property "file.available" cannot be redefined a second time now because the macrodef lives outside of any target and so this property resides on top level. Is this essentially the problem you are facing? That is exactly th

Re: Ant 1.6 local and macrodef attributes

2003-11-27 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:00 PM 11/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: >>One exit path would be without in 1.6 and adding >> at any later point in time. > > So people can ignore the task until 1.7 when it will become > something more than nearly useless? There ar