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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:41:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Wisdom of using ":" in property name
From: Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.connolly@gmail.com>
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Damn you Peter, you beat me to the punch!

On 1 February 2011 14:41, Peter Reilly <peter.kitt.reilly@gmail.com> wrote:
> : and =3D and ' ' are used to separate the key from value in java propert=
y files.
> so, not a good thing to use in property values.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vimil Saju <vimilsaju@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> you're nuts, don't use : in property names! :P
>>
>> --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Steele, Richard <rich@steelezone.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Steele, Richard <rich@steelezone.net>
>>> Subject: Wisdom of using ":" in property name
>>> To: user@ant.apache.org
>>> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 5:53 AM
>>> For better or for worse, I'm using
>>> ":" as a separator character in my
>>> property names as part of a set of reusable build
>>> files.=A0 The part before
>>> the ":" indicates which build file the property is defined
>>> in.
>>>
>>> I've come across at least one incompatibility doing this,
>>> however, and that
>>> is with the Bundlor tool (from SpringSource) for generating
>>> OSGi manifests.
>>> The issue appears to be that Bundlor uses the ":" character
>>> for its own
>>> purposes and is getting confused by my property naming
>>> convention.=A0 I'm
>>> faced with several choices:
>>>
>>> 1. Use something other than Bundlor, like bnd.
>>> 2. Work around or patch Bundlor to make it work with my
>>> property naming
>>> convention.
>>> 3. Use some other naming convention (or none at all).
>>>
>>> None of these choices are all that appealing, but if the
>>> Ant community says
>>> something like "you're nuts, don't use : in property names"
>>> that will
>>> obviously push me towards #3.
>>>
>>> (If you're curious, I chose ":" both because the obvious
>>> choice of "."
>>> wasn't distinct enough from many built-in property names,
>>> and because I also
>>> use ":" in my target names.)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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