I think I actually agree with Colin here. ~/build.properties as a default;
${basedir}/build.properties as an override.
I actually use ~/build.properties to set things that don't happen to be set
later, so it won't impact, but one way to have it go forward is to leave
~/build.properties as is, and h
Jason van Zyl wrote:
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:41, Colin Sampaleanu wrote:
I wanted to get the rationale as to why build.properties from
${user.home} is more dominant than build.properties and
project.properties from the project dir.
To provide a final place where all values can be overri
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> Subject: Re: Why is build.properties from ${user.home} the most dominant
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The idea is that the user knows what he wants, not the project builder.
I thought that the difference between project.properties and
build.properties was the the former were created by the project's
vendor and the latter by the person who is building the project
and are s
Colin Sampaleanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/09/2003 05:41:06 AM:
> I wanted to get the rationale as to why build.properties from
> ${user.home} is more dominant than build.properties and
> project.properties from the project dir.
These are the users preferences, regardless of any project p
Jason van Zyl wrote:
I wanted to get the rationale as to why build.properties from
${user.home} is more dominant than build.properties and
project.properties from the project dir.
From my experience, it is indeed a problem when you need to make
a system specific override for a set of related pro
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:41, Colin Sampaleanu wrote:
> I wanted to get the rationale as to why build.properties from
> ${user.home} is more dominant than build.properties and
> project.properties from the project dir.
To provide a final place where all values can be overridden. The
asumption bei
I wanted to get the rationale as to why build.properties from
${user.home} is more dominant than build.properties and
project.properties from the project dir.
This has always seemed ass-backwards to me, and is in fact backwards to
the order in which a number of ant projects I've seen (and mine)
