If you truly mean "environment" variables in the operating system sense of
the term, you can set environment variables and access them via the Ant
property mechanism. Check out the <property environment="...."/>
capability.
You have two options that I can suggest: 1) use the <property> task as
described above. 2) Write a custom wrapper script (this would be pretty
easy)
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pugh, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:30 AM
Subject: RE: Passing in parameters
> In response to the two earlier replys....:
>
> 1) I am trying to pass an enviroment variable into ANT. I want to copy a
> series of images and files to a webserver, and want to pass the name of
the
> webserver into ANT. What I have done is just tack on a ton of methods, so
> instead of:
> ant deployAllImages webserver1
>
> I have multiple methods
> ant deployAlllImages-webserver1
> ant deployAlllImages-webserver2
> ant deployAlllImages-webserver3
>
> 2) The reasons I don't want to use the -D method is because I want to turn
> over the build/deploy scripts to a less technical, non java developer.
And
> requireing things like -D I think is going to be weird. I guess I could
> have ant deployAllImages -Dserver=webserver1, but that is a long command
> line to remember. And with multiple parameters, say deploy -Dtype=images
> -Dserver=webserver1 seems clumsier. I don't want to create wrappers
because
> that is more to maintain, but maybe it is worth it.
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Passing in parameters
>
>
> What's wrong with -D?
>
> And how do you propose for Ant to support multiple targets on the
> command-line if targets and parameters are specified the same way?
>
> How about writing your own wrapper script that does the "-D" under the
hood
> and only allows a single target to be specified?
>
> Erik
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pugh, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:17 PM
> Subject: Passing in parameters
>
>
> > Is it possible to pass in parameters to ant? Or is that completely
> against
> > the philosphy?
> >
> > I want to be able to pass in an enviroment parameter that does require
the
> > use of -Denviroment=stage. Instead I want to be able to do:
> >
> > ant myproject stage
> > or
> > ant myproject live
> >
> > and so forth....
> >
> > I didn't seem to find anything directly related in the mail archives....
> >
> > ERic Pguh
> >
>
