build.properties

[Ryan Hoegg]

Hi all,

Working on some issues with ant on one of my workstations, and I wanted to ask why we have a build.properties checked into CVS? Isn't it more common in Apache projects to include a build.properties.sample and make each developer be responsible for making local copies?

From Craig McClanahan: http://w6.metronet.com/~wjm/tomcat/2001/May/msg00859.html

* Because the "build.properties" files are local to your development
system, they are *not* checked in to CVS (in fact, they will get
added to the ".cvsignore" list). However, an example properties file
"build.properties.sample" will be checked in that documents the
variables that must, or can, be set.

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Ryan Hoegg
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