I want to discuss a little bit more on this. >From what I understand, a property within a target will not be available to another target unless there is a dependence.
For example, <target name="myInit"> <property name="Me" value="IsMe"/> </target> <target name="showMe"> <echo message="${Me}"/> </target> the above echo will not display any. However, the following will work <target name="showMe" depends="myInit"> <echo message="${Me}"/> </target> But anyway, in order to make a property global, you have to put it outside targets. Am I right? thanks, Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scope of a property On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Holger Danske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <target name="check" unless="is.checked"> > <property name="is.checked"/> this is going to result in in BuildException in Ant 1.5 as one of value,ref or location is required when using the name attribute. I'm not sure whether this simply has been a no-op in Ant 1.4, but I think so. So you probably don't set the property at all. > <target name="redeploy.expand" depends="init, > check"> > <antcall target="clear"/> > <antcall target="deploy.expand"/> > </target> Here you are really doing the equivalent of ant clear ant deploy.expand issued on the command line - of course check will be consulted once for each run (and once as dependency of redeploy.expand). The target called in the <antcall>ed execeutions should be skipped if the property has been set, though. Why don't you use <target name="redeploy.expand" depends="clear,deploy.expand"> ? Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>