Re: Tiny patch to enable Recursion in Ant

> sorry for the delay, a combination of a whole lot of work, a broken
> iBook, very nice weather and severe back pain (not necessarily in that
> order) have kept me offline.
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2008, Colm Smyth <lateralcoder@...> wrote:
>
>> Yes I used subant, but as I said, it can't recurse on the current
>> target.
>>
>> Since recursion should be a core function of a hierarchical build
>> system, I think this patch is worth adding to Ant.
>
> First of all your original mail didn't contain the patch itself.
>
> Second you said you used ant-contrib's for and I pointed out that
> subant should be enough.  The only thing that's missing is a property
> that knows the current target, isn't it?
>
> I know we have rejected the idea of such a property in the past, but
> we may be at a different point today, so if you open an enhancement
> request for such a property (or find the old one and reopen it), that
> would e the right place to attach a patch to enable it.