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From: "Vishweshwar, Ghanakota" <GVishweshwar@firstam.com>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: setting property
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:48:11 -0800
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Here is the scenario:
I am defining global properties for my project in a separate file, which I
will include in the individual build files using external entities in XML.
I also want to give the flexibility of overriding these values thru'
environment variables.
something like this:
<property environment="env" />
<property name="project.home" value="c:\project"
unless="${env.PROJECT_HOME}" />

sorry for not being descriptive enough in the first mail!

thanks,
vishu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:jakarta-ant@ehatchersolutions.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:30 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: setting property
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> Would you mind sharing a bit more of the specific scenario and problem
> you're trying to solve with this request?  Perhaps there are 
> other ways of
> accomplishing what you're after.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vishweshwar, Ghanakota" <GVishweshwar@firstam.com>
> To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:51 PM
> Subject: setting property
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > Is there anyway to set a global property (not thru' -D) only if an
> > environment variable is not set? I can't use "condition" 
> since it's not
> > child of "project".
> >
> > thanks,
> > vishu
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