On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> Essentially:
> >> <property file="build.properties" />
> >> <property file=${user.home}/build.properties" />
> >>
> >> And of course these statements are ignored if the files don't exist.
> >>
> >
> >Ant (at least 1.2 and 1.3) do the latter one for you. On Unix, use
> >"${user.home}/.antrc" to hold global properties. On Windows, you put
> >"antrc_pre.bat" and "antrc_post.bat" files in a directory identified by
> >the %HOME% environment variable (on Win98).
> >
> >So, the good news is we only have to worry about the local directory
> >properties file.
>
> Thanks for the info! That simplifies things...although I couldn't find any info
> on .antrc in the ant 1.2 or 1.3 docs.
>
Yah, you have to spelunk the actual "ant" and "ant.bat" scripts to see
that part ... :-)
> mark
>
Craig