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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> on 2006/09/01 06:08:43 UTC
Re: copying references
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> All: shouldn't Ant have an e.g. <refcopy> task?
We probably never felt the need for it, but why not. I'm not sure
about the name since copy implies cloning to me. Something with
"alias" in its name?
Stefan
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Re: copying references
Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>.
--- Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Matt Benson
> <gu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > All: shouldn't Ant have an e.g. <refcopy> task?
>
> We probably never felt the need for it, but why not.
> I'm not sure
> about the name since copy implies cloning to me.
> Something with
> "alias" in its name?
1) "alias" to me implies a relationship between the
_names_; which is what we have today with <foo id="x"
refid="y" />. But if we decide to go this route, I'm
sure we can compromise semantically.
Do you (or anyone else) have an opinion on DD's
assertion that the concrete use-case (modifying
imported references) could be better solved by scoping
imported references as targets? [1]
-Matt
[1]
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=115703947632596&w=2
>
> Stefan
>
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