DO NOT REPLY [Bug 9017] New: - No whitespaces allowed for porperties on command line

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No whitespaces allowed for porperties on command line

           Summary: No whitespaces allowed for porperties on command line
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.4
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: hardy@youramigo.com


It is not possible to parse a property containing a whitespace into the build
process using the -D option, eg:
ant -Doptions="this are the options I need in the build" all.

In some cases this might be useful, eg I have a target which executes another 
programm via exec and I would like to do something like this:
<exec executable="my executable">
 <arg line="${options}"/>
</exec>

I checked the implementation for the command line parsing in 
org.apache.tools.ant.Main. It seems to me that the algorithm used to parse 
the options is quite rudimentary. It relies on the args[] array which is passed 
into main. What's about using the gnu.getopt package or beeing just a bit 
smarter with the -D options

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