RE: Search for properties file in parent directories

2010-11-11 Thread Ludwig, Michael
Merci Antoine et Dominique! > But may I inquire why you need that? Of course. :-) I don't really need this, I was just wondering whether it was possible. I could have maintained different configurations in different subdirectories, overriding configurations in directories higher up the tree. A us

Re: Search for properties file in parent directories

2010-11-11 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Ludwig, Michael wrote: > On the command line, I can instruct ant to go searching for a build > file by climbing up the directory tree: [...] > From within a script, I can instruct ant to load properties from a > file using . > > Is there a way to instruct Ant to go

Re: Search for properties file in parent directories

2010-11-11 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Michael, I do not know of any way of doing this in a generic fashion. If you have few levels of directories and the number of directories is known, you can write this : this will not bail out if one of the property files does not exists and it will read the files in the order of