Ah, ok.  That works.  Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:DDevienne@;lgc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:35 PM
> 
> I didn't say the defaults cannot be set in an external 
> build.properties. 
> 
> --- build.xml ---
> <property environment="env"/>
> <property file="defaults.properties"/>
> 
> <echo message="xyz = ${xyz}"/>
> 
> --- defaults.properties ---
> # Default properties
> env.XYZ = default
> 
> # Mapping to real properties
> xyz = ${env.XYZ}
> 
> Good old 'another level of indirection' ;-) --DD
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@;attws.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:27 PM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: RE: Best way to get paths either from env vars or 
> properties file ?
> 
> Bleah.  It's not worth it then.  Specifying the default 
> locations inside the
> build.xml, as opposed to the build.properties file, is not 
> ideal.  I guess
> there's no clean way to get both.

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