From cd36815aec522488ee908778d5dd4fca69733ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Reilly <peterreilly@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:34:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add note for reason for using setproperty rather than
 setnewproperty in available.java

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@277338 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
index 02a77dc17..65808a159 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
@@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ public class Available extends Task implements Condition {
                         + "  Build file should not reuse the same property"
                         + " name for different values.");
                 }
+                // NB: this makes use of Project#setProperty rather than Project#setNewProperty
+                //     due to backwards compatiblity reasons
                 getProject().setProperty(property, value);
             }
         } finally {