Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Loughran
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you point out where you have seen this reference so that it can be modified. I trusted Steve's writing 8-) I trusted Stefan's reviewing of my writing :) ---

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: OK. they were tail first, and I have stated that fact both in the draft and in the big projects chapter of the second edition of Java development with Ant. Which means that I have bit of editing to do on the CVS-managed copies of that chapter. I've been trying to finish

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you point out where you have seen this reference so that it can > be modified. I trusted Steve's writing 8-) Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Kev Jackson
OK. they were tail first, and I have stated that fact both in the draft and in the big projects chapter of the second edition of Java development with Ant. Which means that I have bit of editing to do on the CVS-managed copies of that chapter. I've been trying to finish that chapter since a

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: Peter Reilly wrote: At one stage, the import task behaved as if it was added at the end of the build file. This was an unexpected consequence (bug!) of the initial implementation. This was changed (I think) in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2, so that the import behaved as if it was inline. I

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Dominique Devienne
On 10/13/05, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At one stage, the import task behaved as if > it was added at the end of the build file. This was an > unexpected consequence (bug!) of the initial implementation. > This was changed (I think) in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2, so that the import behaved > as

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Kev Jackson
Peter Reilly wrote: At one stage, the import task behaved as if it was added at the end of the build file. This was an unexpected consequence (bug!) of the initial implementation. This was changed (I think) in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2, so that the import behaved as if it was inline. I have just checked th

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Loughran
Peter Reilly wrote: At one stage, the import task behaved as if it was added at the end of the build file. This was an unexpected consequence (bug!) of the initial implementation. This was changed (I think) in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2, so that the import behaved as if it was inline. I have just checked the

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Reilly
At one stage, the import task behaved as if it was added at the end of the build file. This was an unexpected consequence (bug!) of the initial implementation. This was changed (I think) in 1.6.1 or 1.6.2, so that the import behaved as if it was inline. I have just checked the manual for the task

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-12 Thread Kev Jackson
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However if I try to run the project buildfile (./build.xml), none of the properties are available (quick checks with echo just give me variables instead of expanded properties). This is not what I've se

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes the properties file is being loaded (just rechecked now). It > seems to be a problem if I reference a property from the common > properties file within the project specific file. Hmm, may it just be the order in which files are lo

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-12 Thread Kev Jackson
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However if I try to run the project buildfile (./build.xml), none of the properties are available (quick checks with echo just give me variables instead of expanded properties). This is not what I've se

Re: Quick question about properties

2005-10-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Kev Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However if I try to run the project buildfile (./build.xml), none of > the properties are available (quick checks with echo just give me > variables instead of expanded properties). This is not what I've seen in the past. Properties d

Quick question about properties

2005-10-12 Thread Kev Jackson
Hi all, I'm trying to refactor a build file we have here into a commonly used set of targets and then project specifc targets. Here's my directory setup ./common/build.xml ./common/build.properties ./build.xml (shown below) Now in the common/build.xml I use the property file tag to read in