Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-20 Thread Marcus Lindblom
Ok. Someone had provided a patch in issue 40093, which adresses this, so I'll just wait for that one to be merged into ant proper then. The PropertyHelper class is indeed rather confusing. Thanks, /Marcus Peter Reilly wrote: Replacement of propertyhelper is broken in current ant: see: http://

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-20 Thread Peter Reilly
Replacement of propertyhelper is broken in current ant: see: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40093 and http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25998 However some people have done it see: http://www.efanomars.net/pf/ My feeling that the replacement of propertyhelper was

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-20 Thread Marcus Lindblom
Marcus Lindblom wrote: Dominique Devienne wrote: I am sure other Ant committers will feel differently. I do not see a big urge to implement this. On the other side, why not ? [snip} Righto. I'll see what I can come up with then. :) I got response on the bugzilla issue, that there is a Proper

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-19 Thread Marcus Lindblom
Dominique Devienne wrote: I am sure other Ant committers will feel differently. I do not see a big urge to implement this. On the other side, why not ? Yes, why not. Referencing an unset property is indeed often a bug in the build, although not always. I have thought myself than an "sh" proper

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-19 Thread Dominique Devienne
I am sure other Ant committers will feel differently. I do not see a big urge to implement this. On the other side, why not ? Yes, why not. Referencing an unset property is indeed often a bug in the build, although not always. I have thought myself than an "sh" property handler, which implement

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-19 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Marcus, I am sure other Ant committers will feel differently. I do not see a big urge to implement this. On the other side, why not ? If you want, open a bug report concerning this idea. Be sure to add to the bug report source code, documentation and testcases. New files can be added

Re: Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-19 Thread Marcus Lindblom
Sorry for bouncing. I'm just wondering if there is somewhere (other than this list) where this is better dicusssed? /Marcus Marcus Lindblom wrote: Hi, I just want to ask a bit something that probably has been discussed to death before: unset properties handling. The latest 1.7 does not addr

Customizable handling of unset properties

2006-09-09 Thread Marcus Lindblom
Hi, I just want to ask a bit something that probably has been discussed to death before: unset properties handling. The latest 1.7 does not address this (according to the release notes), and I could find no enhancement request discussing it either. So, my simple proposal is: Allow the user