At 05:23 7/5/01 +0100, Vincent Massol wrote:
>> An expansion on Peter's comments.
>>
>> What should be recommended is the ability to (1) control the actual jars
>> used via Ant properties, and (2) be able to easily specify these
>properties
>> using Ant properties files which can be found in the current working
>> directory or the user's home directory. (Note: the name of these
>> properties files should be standardized too, my only vote is that they
>> don't start with a "dot").
>>
>> What the defaults for such properties should be is subject to much
>> controversy. If jars are checked into CVS, then the path to these jars
>> would be a reasonable default.
>>
>
>+1 for defining this properties file and having the link to the jars
>specified in it. My proposal for the name is build.properties as we already
>have build.xml ...(please no "dot" as a prefix !).
I would say .ant.properties because it is what the most projects use that I
am aware of. If the dot is a problem I would suggest strip the dot except
for the property file in home directory.
Cheers,
Pete
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