On Jan 11, 2008 5:14 PM, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@(protected):

> On Jan 11, 2008 8:11 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@(protected):
> > "Gilles Scokart" <gscokart@(protected):
> >
> > > I never thought to overwrite macro to customize a generic build
> script. Can
> > > macro be overwritten?
> >
> > Sure, it's just another Ant task that has been defined.
>
> But my point is that most of the time, you never want to override
> things (macros or target), but augment them with some kind of pre or
> post processing. Peo's point of simply copy-pasting the "abstract"
> build code to fully override the target duplicates that code, and
> makes build maintenance all the more difficult. That's the well known
> issue with code generator and code wizards when it's done in a one-of
> way. Copy-pasting a target content shows failure of the generic build
> to be flexible, and should be the exception rather than the rule, and
> actually frowned upon IMHO. --DD

+1

Xavier

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