Maybe I missed this in all the debate, but...
Peter Donald wrote:
> 2. Are properties mutable or immutable?
Can't we resolve this by having properties, which are by nature
immutable, and variables, which by nature ARE mutable.?
I.e.
<property name="version" value="2.1" />
<property name="base" value="/project/release" />
<variable name="install_dir" value="${base}/jrun/${version} />
do some work...using ${install_dir} as needed.
<variable name="install_dir" value="${base}/websphere/${version} />
do some more work..using ${install_dir} as needed.
<variable name="install_dir" value="${base}/tomcat/${version} />
do some more work..using ${install_dir} as needed.
Properties would NOT be override in build files called from a build
file, but variables could be.
