Hi Julian, Your example works for me as you would like it to work :-)
Can you tell us what Version of Ant (ant -version) are you using? This will not work with older versions (works since 14./15. Sep.) Try to run ant -verbose - it should tell you what is happening (and when). Nico ----- Original Message ----- From: Julian M. Savage To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 5:08 AM Subject: conditional loading of properties files I'm wondering if there is any way to conditionally load a properties file. I have two files, build.xml and test.properties in my example below, and as you can see, while defining the property deploy prevents the echo from being executed, it doesn't prevent the property file from being loaded, which is somewhat counter-intuitive. Is this expected/required behaviour?
