On Monday 27 May 2002 02:36 pm, Anthony W. Marino wrote: > For example, the "apache13.home" property is set with too a generic/common > directory location which should, 100% of the time, evaluate to true when > checked with an "available" task (ie; target "detect").
Note that "True" is when running on *nix implementations. Anthony > This global assignment will only occur, of course, when one has purposely > commented-out (indicating apache13 not available) or inadvertantly omitted > that particular property from a properties file. > > > Several possible solutions: > > 1) Initialize the property with a more specific dir path (ie; > /usr/local/apache13 (see "apache2.home" intialization). Only issue here is > if the user had several installs of apache13 including in the default path > and intended to use another installation path. > > 2) Remove the global assignment and make it a prerequisite for the user to > add this to a properties file which will always fail if not preset in a > properties file. > > > If you are going to setup global properties in "build.xml" maybe some > conditional statements are in order, where applicable, to be more os > specific/compliant. Or mabe os specific properties files that could be > generated/used automatically? > > Thanks, > Anthony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
