Thanks all for your replies, i tried some thing like this and it worked.
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and when i ran the command ant -Dversion=25 it worked. Actually my ant task
is replacing a regular expression with the version value. When i dont pass
the arguments -Dversion=xxx it sets the token value as 23.
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Honestly, its quite possible I am remembering wrong...
I'm looking over some of my old code...it looks like I wanted to emit a
warning if overriding - its me...again ;)
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Niklas Matthies wrote:
I don't think this (emitting a warning) was ever the case. Setting and
over
I don't think this (emitting a warning) was ever the case. Setting and
overriding defaults this way is one of the basic techniques in Ant. It
should probably be made more explicit in the manual.
-- Niklas Matthies
On Tue 2010-11-30 at 14:30h, Scot P. Floess wrote on user:
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, ritchie wrote:
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> My ant script takes a value for a property at runtime(-Denv=xxx), if the
> argument is not passed i want the value to be set as a default arbitary
> value. How to accomplish this?
What do you mean "arbitrary" value? Do you mean some value that y
Actually, nothing at all... I swear at one time I thought a warning was
emitted when doing that... It was at that time I started using the
enclosed macrodef... Perhaps I am just remembering wrong...
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Niklas Matthies wrote:
How is this different from just
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How is this different from just
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-- Niklas Matthies
On Tue 2010-11-30 at 14:11h, Scot P. Floess wrote on user:
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> Here is something I like to use... I macrodef'd it out so I can call it
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What may it be wrong about simply using:
Since properties are immutable and if it was set in the command line
call it won't change?
Best regards,
Alexander.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> Clearly my snippet is wrong:
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Clearly my snippet is wrong:
- Call to was using the wrong attribute
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Scot P. Floess wrote:
Here is something I like to use... I
Here is something I like to use... I macrodef'd it out so I can call it
for many properties that require default values...
This works with stock Ant (meani
