RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-04 Thread Dalton, Tom
I have implemented the suggestion on the FAQ of using a macrodef task to do the double dereference (in 1.7.1) and it works perfectly, so thank you all for the help. I am still surprised it's not a standard built-in task though... Cheers, Tom -

AW: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-04 Thread Jan.Materne
Not sure about 1.7.1 - havent tried it. But with trunk ;-) Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Rebhan, Gilbert [mailto:gilbert.reb...@huk-coburg.de] >Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 10:02 >An: 'Ant Users List' >Betreff: RE: Dereferencing property files >

RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-04 Thread Rebhan, Gilbert
-Original Message- From: jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:55 AM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: AW: Dereferencing property files /* AFAIK this AC:task is available for Ant earlier 1.6. With Core: I am not up to date with

AW: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-04 Thread Jan.Materne
hat. Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Dalton, Tom [mailto:tdal...@hp.com] >Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 18:03 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: RE: Dereferencing property files > >As a quick note, the FAQ should probably say: > >How can I do

RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-04 Thread Rebhan, Gilbert
-Original Message- From: Dalton, Tom [mailto:tdal...@hp.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:38 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Dereferencing property files /* Jan, Thanks - that is exactly what I need... I'm sorry I did not see that sooner! Is there any chance of

RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-03 Thread Dalton, Tom
gain, Tom -Original Message- From: jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de] Sent: 03 December 2009 12:49 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: AW: Dereferencing property files Do you mean this: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property ? Jan >-

RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-03 Thread Dalton, Tom
rw.de [mailto:jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de] Sent: 03 December 2009 12:49 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: AW: Dereferencing property files Do you mean this: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property ? Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Dalton, Tom [mailto:tda

AW: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-03 Thread Jan.Materne
Do you mean this: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property ? Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: Dalton, Tom [mailto:tdal...@hp.com] >Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 10:39 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: RE: Dereferencing property fi

RE: Dereferencing property files

2009-12-03 Thread Dalton, Tom
Should I assume that this is impossible in Ant? This seems like a major limitation... Tom -Original Message- From: Dalton, Tom Sent: 01 December 2009 12:05 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Dereferencing property files Hi, I have a property file with an entries like: atk-1.26.0

Dereferencing property files

2009-12-01 Thread Dalton, Tom
Hi, I have a property file with an entries like: atk-1.26.0.exported.base.dir=/path/to/atk/1.26.0 atk-1.27.0.exported.base.dir=/path/to/atk/1.27.0 In my build file I want to be able to refer to this property with a version-independent name like "atk.base.dir" I load the property file, to get th