"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> See below.
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
> > Vincent Massol wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- 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).
> >
> > I have to admit I don't feel very sorry for you. Switch to something
> > else. Anything else. Even Mac OSX supposedly has a decent JVM now. :)
> >
> > However, I agree with you as 'build.properties' makes its purpose pretty
> > clear. '.ant.properties' would be confusing for someone new to this
> > stuff.
> >
> > and yes, we shouldn't make it hard for a large portion of the user
> > base.
> >
> > > 2) The name is really too unix centric for my taste
> >
> > Hm. That 8.3 stuff still plagues you guys? I guess you would want
> >
> > C:\BUILD.PRP
> >
> > :D
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > +1, but I assumed that your Unix sympathies would be like my windows
> > sympathies. ;->
> >
>
> I believe the precedent that matters in this case is what Ant itself uses
> and proposes (.ant.properties), which -- as Peter points out -- lots of
> other projects have adopted for that reason.
I understand. But the freedom you have with specification of the
external/override properties via the build.xml is nice, I think.
Wouldn't we pickup the users default .ant.properties anyway?
>
> WRT Windows, I've had zero problems creating ".ant.properties" files with
> any text editor or IDE, so what is the issue here?
I think it has to do with using the 'explorer'... it won't let you
create a file starting with "."
geir
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