you're nuts, don't use : in property names! :P --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Steele, Richard <r...@steelezone.net> wrote:
> From: Steele, Richard <r...@steelezone.net> > Subject: Wisdom of using ":" in property name > To: user@ant.apache.org > Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 5:53 AM > For better or for worse, I'm using > ":" as a separator character in my > property names as part of a set of reusable build > files. The part before > the ":" indicates which build file the property is defined > in. > > I've come across at least one incompatibility doing this, > however, and that > is with the Bundlor tool (from SpringSource) for generating > OSGi manifests. > The issue appears to be that Bundlor uses the ":" character > for its own > purposes and is getting confused by my property naming > convention. I'm > faced with several choices: > > 1. Use something other than Bundlor, like bnd. > 2. Work around or patch Bundlor to make it work with my > property naming > convention. > 3. Use some other naming convention (or none at all). > > None of these choices are all that appealing, but if the > Ant community says > something like "you're nuts, don't use : in property names" > that will > obviously push me towards #3. > > (If you're curious, I chose ":" both because the obvious > choice of "." > wasn't distinct enough from many built-in property names, > and because I also > use ":" in my target names.) > > Thanks, > Rich > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
