conor 01/08/29 05:59:28
Modified: . Tag: ANT_14_BRANCH WHATSNEW build.bat
Log:
Note the change to $ reslution in property files.
PR: 3248
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1.144.2.9 +9 -1 jakarta-ant/WHATSNEW
Index: WHATSNEW
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/WHATSNEW,v
retrieving revision 1.144.2.8
retrieving revision 1.144.2.9
diff -u -w -u -r1.144.2.8 -r1.144.2.9
--- WHATSNEW 2001/08/27 14:14:39 1.144.2.8
+++ WHATSNEW 2001/08/29 12:59:27 1.144.2.9
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
encoding attribute of the task and set it to UTF8 to get the old
behavior.
-* The <pvcs> task has been move to a package of its own.
+* The <pvcs> task has been moved to a package of its own.
* JUnitResultFormater has two additional methods that must be
implemented by custom formatters.
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@
in it (matched by the default excludes).
* The copy task will now fail if the file to be copied is not found.
+
+* Ant properties defined in properties files now behave the same way as
+ properties defined in the build file. In particular the $ character needs
+ to be escaped in property values by doubling it to $$. So, to define a
+ property with the value $hello, you need to define it in a properties file
+ as
+ test.prop=$$hello
+ This was not the case in Ant 1.3
Other changes:
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1.29.2.2 +1 -1 jakarta-ant/build.bat
Index: build.bat
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/build.bat,v
retrieving revision 1.29.2.1
retrieving revision 1.29.2.2
diff -u -w -u -r1.29.2.1 -r1.29.2.2
--- build.bat 2001/08/19 15:17:25 1.29.2.1
+++ build.bat 2001/08/29 12:59:27 1.29.2.2
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
:runAnt
set LOCALCLASSPATH=lib\crimson.jar;lib\jaxp.jar;bootstrap\lib\ant.jar
for %%i in (lib\optional\*.jar) do call bootstrap\bin\lcp.bat %%i
-set CLASSPATH=%LOCALCLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH%
+set CLASSPATH=lib\optional\xalanj1compat.jar;%LOCALCLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH%
set LOCALCLASSPATH=
if not "%REAL_ANT_HOME%" == "" goto install_ant
