RE: How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Häfelinger
Jörg Schaible [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21-04-2005 08:52 Please respond to Maven Users List users@maven.apache.org To Maven Users List users@maven.apache.org cc Subject RE: How would I read a non-standard property file? Hello, thanks for the feedback. Will try some proposals and given feedback

RE: How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Arik Kfir wrote on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:23 PM: Jörg Schaible wrote: This won't work in general. E.g. a property like maven.repo.remote is evaluated before the first goal ever executed. Additionally if you load properties, they are nor available in the reactors e.g. inherited by the

How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Häfelinger
Hello, I understand that Maven tries to read the files project.properties and build.properties on startup. How would I convince Maven to read other.props?? Does a tag like properties file=other.props/ or so exists? I' m very well aware that Maven tries to read build.properties from

Re: How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-20 Thread Arik Kfir
I don't think Maven can do that out of the box - but you can add a line in your maven.xml file that does that - just make sure it puts them in the right context. Also, that *could* make a nice plugin, so you can use it in other projects as well ;-) cheers, Arik. Wolfgang Hfelinger wrote:

Re: How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-20 Thread Mykel Alvis
I'm in the initial planning stages of a properties plugin. We have a huge number of properties that are going to be distributed using an internal property service and some of our build props might come from that service. The property repository is planned as a web/soap service, so it should be

Re: How would I read a non-standard property file?

2005-04-20 Thread Arik Kfir
Jrg Schaible wrote: This won't work in general. E.g. a property like maven.repo.remote is evaluated before the first goal ever executed. Additionally if you load properties, they are nor available in the reactors e.g. inherited by the subprojects in multiproject. You'll have to play with