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Bug 81411 - Confusion about "build.xml" under file menu
Summary: Confusion about "build.xml" under file menu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50584
Alias: None
Product: projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jesse Glick
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-07-29 06:01 UTC by thomassrtanner
Modified: 2006-11-06 17:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description thomassrtanner 2006-07-29 06:01:15 UTC
When you open build.xml under the "file" menu. if you double click the entry,
you open build.xml in the project directory. If however, you click the little
plus icon and open up all the targets, and double click one of them, you get
build-impl.xml from somewhere completely different.

This is completely counter-intuitive, and causes extreme confusion. Whilst I
admit it is a mistake that if made once, once it has been explained, you never
make again, it takes a lot of posting to get it explained.

It would probably be better if build.xml had blank entries for the customisable
targets, and clicking the little + icon gave you a list of the customisable
targets, and if you wanted to edit build_impl.xml, you should go through the
file menu to find it.
Comment 1 Marian Mirilovic 2006-11-06 14:59:36 UTC
I guess the problem is with tasks from the imported file , but all these tasks
are differentiate by color/font type of the name...
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2006-11-06 17:06:54 UTC
Imported targets are in italics.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 50584 ***