Hi,
I've been struggling around a while after updating a 5 month old nant
to the latest version.
I've been confused about what I get when overriding a property from
the command-line (which we use a lot for instance with cruisecontrol) :
"Read-only property "xxx" cannot be overwritten."
Don't reply RTFM, I had read it but never had actually realised what
was happening here :) I've been expecting readonly flag to be the
solution (but its' not), and even ended up writing this :
<ifnot test="${property::exists('myprop')}">
<property name="myprop" value="false"/>
</ifnot>
as a work around (sure it works).
Finally I discovered that the good way to write this seems to be :
<property name="myprop" value="true" overwrite="false" />
So basically I'm making a proposal here : we should change the message :
"Read-only property "xxx" cannot be overwritten."
to something more helpful.
Maybe something like (dunno, it's a bit long maybe)
"Read-only property "xxx" cannot be overwritten. Command-line
properties are always read-only; add an overwrite="false" attribute to
your property definition if you want to be able to override it from
the command line"
What do you think? Did other users meet the same issue ?
cheers
Thibaut
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