donaldp 01/02/09 04:59:33
Modified: docs/manual/CoreTasks Tag: ANT_13_BRANCH property.html
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Added documentation for environment attribute of property.
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
<tr>
<td valign="top">value</td>
<td valign="top">the value of the property.</td>
- <td valign="middle" align="center" rowspan="5">Yes</td>
+ <td valign="middle" align="center" rowspan="6">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">refid</td>
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@
is left unchanged (with / and \ characters converted to the
current platforms conventions). Otherwise it is taken as a path
relative to the project's basedir and expanded.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">environment</td>
+ <td valign="top">the prefix to use when retrieving environment
variables. Thus
+ if you specify environment="myenv" you will be able to access
OS-specific
+ environment variables via property names "myenv.PATH" or "myenv.TERM".
Note
+ that if you supply a property name with a final "." it will not be
doubled. ie
+ environment="myenv." will still allow access of environment variables
through
+ "myenv.PATH" and "myenv.TERM". This functionality is currently only
implemented
+ on select platforms. Feel free to send patches to increase the number of
platforms
+ this functionality is supported on ;)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">classpath</td>
