On Wed, 10 May 2000, Vitaly Stulsky wrote:

[snip]
> 2) With applied patch it is possible to use such src dirs:
>               <property   name="src.dir"
>                                       value= "com/company/progr/mainprogr;
>                                                       
> com/company/utils/protocol;
>                                                       com/company/utils/db;
>                                                       com/company/utils/diag;
>                                                       com/company/utils/html;
>                                                       com/company/utils/sort;
>                                                       
> com/company/utils/string;
>                                                       
> com/company/utils/thread;
>                                                       com/company/utils/test;
>                                                       com/company/utils/timer
>               />
>    All paths must be separated by semicolon ( I estimate Unix users 
> indignation,
> but now current
>    approach easily extended to usage semicolon on NT platform and colon on
> Unix).

There is a very standard mechanism in Java for discovering the path
separator:

package java.io;
...
public class File
{
        public static String pathSeparator;
        public static char pathSeparatorChar;
        ...
}

This is hardly a hard interface to use, instead of hard-coding...

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