> Hi all, > > I am not really sure if this is a bug actually. > > I used <propertyfile> to write to a file, and then read from > that file using > <property file="">, > and write again, then read again, etc. > > However, after writing to the file and reading from it, > the value that is read is still the original value sometimes, > and not the > recently written one.
Properties in Ant are immutable, that means: once set the value of a property can�t be changed. > Here's my scenario: > > I am using ant (with ant-contrib) to build and application > and the below is > a snippet of how I try to execute > sql files to setup my database. New sql files are often > added, and only the > new ones should be executed. > So I store the filenames of the sql files I have executed to > exclude them > from the fileset. Sounds for a scenario for a selector ... maybe the <date> selector. http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html#dateselect Jan
