I filed this bug regarding the use of the if and unless attributes of <target>:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44315

Matt Benson pointed out that the problem is that you don't use the ${} notation when naming a property in an if or unless attribute. This is confusing because everywhere else in Ant when you reference a property you use the ${} notation.

The documentation for Targets doesn't mention this:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#targets

The fact that you don't use ${} notation for the if / unless attributes needs be made explicit in the documentation.

Are there any other places where you use a property without using the ${} notation? If so these also need to be made explicit. If the if / unless attributes are the only place where this applies that should also be noted in the documentation for if / unless.

Thanks.

Dean


   
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