-0
I definitely agree with Vincent, my doubts are expressed by his message
too ...but in the sake of not being a PITA i can live with either name..
The question, as i see them, it's significatly more larger than the
present issue..
Being on the multiplataform side of the world.., i think we need to put
an effort on that kind of issues..and rub out any reference to any OS
... present or past..
Saludos ,
Ignacio J. Ortega
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: domingo 15 de abril de 2001 8:01
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Re: Finding "build.properties" Files
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 2:47 AM
> Subject: RE: Finding "build.properties" Files
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Peter Donald wrote:
> >
> > > While your standardizing on this you may want to rename
> build.proeprties
> to
> > > .ant.properties because thats is the convention for the
> rest of the
> world.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> >
> > Yarg, I assumed "build.properties" but just went back and
> looked at Ant's
> > build.xml file. Based on that (and Peter's suggestion
> above), I would
> > suggest we do the following instead:
> >
> > <property file="${basedir}/.ant.properties"/>
> > <property file="${basedir}/../.ant.properties"/>
> > <property file="${user.home}/.ant.properties"/>
> >
> > and call our example file ".ant.properties.sample" instead of
> > "build.properties.sample".
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
> +0 (just because I don't want to be a pain, otherwise I would
> have voted -1
> ...)
>
> Here are my main reasons :
>
> 1) Have you ever tried to create such a file under windows ? It is a
> nightmare because the explorer won't let you. You have to use
> tricks to
> succeed (like opening a dos shell, typing edit
> .ant.properties and exiting
> and saving the file).
>
> 2) The name is really too unix centric for my taste
>
> 3) Why hide this file ? You will tend to forget the existence
> of the file
> under unix, even more if you have 3 : one in your home, one
> in JAKARTA_HOME
> and one in your project.
>
> Vincent.
>
>
