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From: Christoph.Wilhelms@t-online.de (Christoph Wilhelms)
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Subject: RE: Ant-antidote persistent properties
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:36:00 +0200
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Hi Jack!

> Here is a set of files I already sent to Christoph. I didn't 
> want to clog the list, but then I realized it might be part 
> of the community's informal group review process, so 
> belatedly I am posting this to the list also:
> ======================

Just to the list, please :-)!

> This diff + the new files (see the package statements for 
> their locations) implement a PropertiesManager and 
> incidentally add an arg parsing framework. Both frameworks 
> are from my own open source corpus.

Applied, but I rather would have preferred if you have used the Ant
argument-parsing or the CLI framework by Jakarta-Commons:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/index.html
Would be "nice" to replace yours by one of these IMHO just for some
political reasons... ;-)

>    * The default properties file is 
> {user.home}/apache.ant.antidote.persistent.properties
>    * Using the new -p argument you can pass in a properties 
> filename instead
>    * If the properties file does not exist, it is created.
> 
> If you like it, I will convert the Reopener to use this 
> instead of writing its own properties file.

Yes, please, for it does not do much ATM ;-)!

> After that, I will begin a GUI interface to persistent properties.

Well, this should be the main purpose of the persitent properties :-)!

Greetings,
Christoph


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