----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:56 AM Subject: [nant-dev] <property file="filename" /> ?
> Hi Nant Dev, > > Ant supports loading properties from a file (using the 'file' > attribute - see http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html) > . Is there any plan to support this in NAnt? > > Why? > > There's some discussion on the CCNet dev mailing list at the moment > about how best to set a whole bunch on NAnt properties dynamically. We > started off several -Dname=value constructs on the command line but > we're reaching the limit of this. Recent nightly builds (and the next RC) of NAnt now also support a response file (using the @<response file> command line option), thanks to Ian. > We'd much prefer just to write out a Name/Value file and let NAnt read it in. You can just use an <include> task for this purpose. The included project (build file) can just contain a project element and a set of properties to set in the parent project. Gert ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
