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Subject: Re: Typical Usage Question
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From: Spencer A Marks <smarks@digisolutions.com>
Date: 25 Feb 2001 14:53:29 -0500
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This was helpful, thanks. 

I see that user.home is an environment variable that I assume defined
by the java runtime (since it might not exist under every
plateform). Is there a lit of other java defined environment
variables?

Thanks, Spencer



Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org> writes:

> At 04:36  23/2/01 -0500, Spencer A Marks wrote:
> >What's better:
> >
> >-Call ant from a script that sets up the environment for ant (e.g. the
> >classpath, other environment variable)
> 
> -1 BAD
> 
> >-Call Ant directly and let build.xml be responsible for setting
> > everything up correctly. (e.g. the classpath)
> 
> +1 GOOD
> 
> ;)
> 
> >How do people manage to keep build.xml (and any other wrapper files,
> >if that is the recommended way to go) under source code control and
> >still have site specific configurations available. 
> 
> You can use property task to load in configurations from files. Check out
> the build.xml included in ants src and it will have 
> 
>   <!--
>     Give user a chance to override without editing this file
>     (and without typing -D each time he compiles it)
>   -->
>   <property file=".ant.properties"/>
>   <property file="${user.home}/.ant.properties"/>
> 
> which allows you to have per-project and per-user proeprties.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
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