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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> on 2009/09/30 10:50:49 UTC

/ for non-Files

Hi,

do we want to open that can of worms (maybe in a limited form) for Ant
1.8.0 or should we keep it closed?

Stefan

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Re: / for non-Files

Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> From: Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>
> Subject: Re: <import>/<ant> for non-Files
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:30 AM
> On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >> On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >>> +100
> 
> >> for adding it to Ant 1.8.0, I guess.
> 
> > I guess I could wait a little longer if we decide it
> will be extremely
> > time-consuming to implement, but I've been of the
> opinion we need this
> > for quite some time...
> 
> It looks doable if we don't try to be too sophisticated.
> 
> > and am fine with $(user.dir) as the default basedir
> for non-file-based
> > imports.
> 
> We might even throw in a new attribute so people can
> explicitly set it
> from the calling <import> or <ant> task.
> 

I had also thought about something like this.

-Matt

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Re: / for non-Files

Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

>> On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> +100

>> for adding it to Ant 1.8.0, I guess.

> I guess I could wait a little longer if we decide it will be extremely
> time-consuming to implement, but I've been of the opinion we need this
> for quite some time...

It looks doable if we don't try to be too sophisticated.

> and am fine with $(user.dir) as the default basedir for non-file-based
> imports.

We might even throw in a new attribute so people can explicitly set it
from the calling <import> or <ant> task.

Stefan

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Re: / for non-Files

Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> From: Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>
> Subject: Re: <import>/<ant> for non-Files
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 9:09 AM
> On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > +100
> 
> for adding it to Ant 1.8.0, I guess.

I guess I could wait a little longer if we decide it will be extremely time-consuming to implement, but I've been of the opinion we need this for quite some time... and am fine with $(user.dir) as the default basedir for non-file-based imports.

-Matt

> 
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Re: / for non-Files

Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2009-09-30, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> +100

for adding it to Ant 1.8.0, I guess.

Stefan

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Re: / for non-Files

Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.
+100

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> From: Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>
> Subject: <import>/<ant> for non-Files
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:50 AM
> Hi,
> 
> do we want to open that can of worms (maybe in a limited
> form) for Ant
> 1.8.0 or should we keep it closed?
> 
> Stefan
> 
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