RE: manifest attribute in ANT

Confirmed on cvs version from "May 24 2004".
Had a look into the source and it seems that that was done intentionally:

0050: public class Manifest {
0071:     /** The max length of a line in a Manifest */
0072:     public static final int MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 72;
0073:
0074:     /**
0075:      * Max length of a line section which is continued. Need to allow
0076:      * for the CRLF.
0077:      */
0078:     public static final int MAX_SECTION_LENGTH = MAX_LINE_LENGTH - 2;
0079:
0080:     /** The End-Of-Line marker in manifests */
0081:     public static final String EOL = "\r\n";
0082:
0087:     public static class Attribute {
0300:         private void writeValue(PrintWriter writer, String value)
0303:            while (line.getBytes().length > MAX_LINE_LENGTH) {
0305:                 int breakIndex = MAX_SECTION_LENGTH;
0306:                 String section = line.substring(0, breakIndex);
0316:                 writer.print(section + EOL);
0317:                 line = " " + line.substring(breakIndex);
0318:             }
0319:             writer.print(line + EOL);
0320:         }

But I don´t know the reason for that ... maybe something in the specs?

Jan