Posted By:
Christian_Ey
Posted On:
Wednesday, May 8, 2002 05:06 AM
Hi there, it is stated in the ANT doc very clearly that properties are immutable (once set never changed). I know that and in most cases this is a very useful feature. But there are cases in which it really might be good to have the possibility to change a property explicitly. For example if you want to perform the same target multiple times but with different properties: [...] In fact, I have a solution for that problem: I built a custom task called working the same way as the task except that it allows overriding properties (anyone interested - I can make it downloadable somewhere). But i
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Hi there,
it is stated in the ANT doc very clearly that properties are immutable (once set never changed). I know that and in most cases this is a very useful feature.
But there
are
cases in which it really might be good to have the possibility to change a property explicitly. For example if you want to perform the same target multiple times but with different properties:
[...]
In fact, I have a solution for that problem: I built a custom task called
But isn't there a better workaround for that problem? Or wouldn't it desirable to have such an override task in a future ant version?
Best regards,
Chris
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