Jason van Zyl wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 20:11, James CE Johnson wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey all...
>>
>>First, it looks like ~/build.properties doesn't override 
>>project.properties any more even though I have
>>
>>  <!-- Allow any user specific values to override the defaults -->
>>  <property file="${user.home}/build.properties" />
>>  <!-- Allow user defaults for this project -->
>>  <property file="build.properties" />
>>  <!-- Set default values for the build -->
>>  <property file="default.properties" />
>>    
>>
>
>Currently we process properties like this:
>
>$PROJECT/build.properties
>$HOME/build.properties
>$PROJECT/project.properties
>--system properties--
>
>And the last definition wins.
>
>But it will be changed to:
> 
>$PROJECT/project.properties
>$PROJECT/build.properties
>$HOME/build.properties
>
>So the project can set defaults, then you can override the those with a
>local build.properties, and those in turn can be overridden by values in
>your ~/build.properties. So your ~/build.properties will get the final
>say and you will not need to explicitly import any properties using Ant.
>
>I will add this to the beta-6 release I'm working on now as this is how
>the properties should be processed.
>

Thanks! That would be great!

>
>  
>
>>in my maven.xml file.
>>
>>
>>Second, what happened to maven.dependency.set? We have a post-compile 
>>action (converting it to a goal thingy now) that sets up an exploded 
>>warfile in /tmp/webapps/myapp.war for jetty to play with. We need to 
>>copy the list of jars on which the app is dependent and were using 
>>maven.dependency.set for that. Is there a better way now?
>>    
>>
>
><deploy:copy-deps todir="/path"/>
>

Can I tell it to exclude some things. Like servlet*.jar for instance?

>
>Will do the trick for you.
>
>Note, you have to add the xmlns:deploy="deploy" namespace thingy to your
>maven.xml file.
>
>  
>
>>Thanks,
>>J
>>
>>
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