Re: [nant-dev] reading property values from external file

[Scott Hernandez]

Yes, we plan to support loading properties from an xml file, and/or some other configuration location. This has not come up, and nobody has done any work on this, as I remember. I expect when we have a way of specifying configuration info there will be a place to set global/default properties. We will need to address user/system/project properties.   With the proposed changes to <foreach> you should be able to specify something like the following:   <foreach item="Line" in="properties.csv" delim="," property="x,y">     <property name="${x}" value="${y}"/> </>   where properties.cvs is prop1, value prop2, value     I'm fine with comparing ant and nant features. I'm sure the ant team, and their users, have learned a lot in the many years of development and use. I'm happy to leverage all their knowledge and experiences. The features that ant has should all be provided by NAnt in one way or another. :)   ----- Original Message ----- From: Gert Driesen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:35 PM Subject: [nant-dev] reading property values from external file Hi,   Are there plans to support a task for loading property values from an external (xml) file ?   In the end, we should have something like this to allow settings to be specified or overridden on a user level.   Using the commandline to specify indiviual properties is fine when you need to override only a few properties, but when you want the build process to be highly configurable by a user, it's not sufficient.   Ant (no I don't want to campare Nant with Ant again :-)) currently supports both a properties file (comparabe with INI file) and an xml-properties file.   Are there intentions to support something similar for NAnt ?   Gert