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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@ebinteractive.com.au>
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Subject: RE: can set propery only once
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:03:29 +1100
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Ingo,

It is a feature which has caused much debate on this list and I think we are
moving to address it somehow. It comes about from the need to override
properties set in a build file from the command line. If the properties are
set in the build file and can be changed, it is difficult to override them
at the command line, or from another ant project. Thus either properties are
immutable, allowing the command line to have precedence or properties have a
precedence associated with them so that only properties cannot be set with a
lower precedence value.

Conor


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Adler [mailto:ingo.adler@qbic.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 19:57
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: AW: can set propery only once
>
>
> Do you think that it's a necessary feature?
> I have some examples, where I don't need this feature.
> I don't have any example, where I need this feature.
>
> Ingo.
>
> > Its a feature at this time.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can set a property only once = it always has the first assigned
> value:
> >
> > <target name="a">
> > 	<property name="tmp" value="tmp/a"/>
> > <target/>
> > <target name="b">
> > 	<property name="tmp" value="tmp/b"/>
> >
> > 	The Value of ${tmp} is still tmp/a
> >
> > <target/>
> >
> > Is this a feature or a bug?
> >
> > Ingo
> >
>