conor 2003/02/05 01:33:20
Modified: docs/manual/CoreTasks property.html Log: Some innocuous wording for the definition of user.home PR: 14167 Revision Changes Path 1.13 +6 -4 jakarta-ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html Index: property.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html,v retrieving revision 1.12 retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -w -u -r1.12 -r1.13 --- property.html 22 Jun 2002 23:38:27 -0000 1.12 +++ property.html 5 Feb 2003 09:33:20 -0000 1.13 @@ -128,10 +128,12 @@ builds using the following:</p> <pre> <property file="${user.home}/.ant-global.properties"/></pre> <p>since the "user.home" property is defined by the Java virtual machine -to be your home directory. This technique is more appropriate for Unix than -Windows since the notion of a home directory doesn't exist on Windows. On the -JVM that I tested, the home directory on Windows is "C:\". Different JVM -implementations may use other values for the home directory on Windows.</p> +to be your home directory. Where the "user.home" property resolves to in +the file system depends on the operating system version and the JVM implementation. +On Unix based systems, this will map to the user's home directory. On modern Windows +variants, this will most likely resolve to the user's directory in the "Documents +and Settings" folder. Older windows variants such as Windows 98/ME are less +predictable, as are other operating system/JVM combinations.</p> <pre> <property environment="env"/>