Yes, this is default behavior. IVY settings files can have properties with the option to alter pre-existing properties. The option is in the "override" attribute. If you set it to false, then you will not mutate any ANT pre-existing properties.
--- Shawn Castrianni -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Carlton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ivy can mutate Ant properties? What? I was surprised today to observe that the ivy:info task can mutate Ant properties, which are supposedly immutable. In this snippet of Ant code, I hardcode some Ant properties. After a call to ivy:info, these properties have changed, which should not occur (as far as I understand). Can anyone explain what's going on here? <target name="ivy-mutability" depends="ivy-load-commonsettings"> <property name="ivy.organisation" value="foo.bar"/> <property name="ivy.module" value="mutant"/> <property name="ivy.revision" value="9.8"/> <property name="ivy.status" value="beta"/> <echo message="pre-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}"/> <echo message="pre-info module: ${ivy.module}" /> <echo message="pre-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" /> <echo message="pre-info status: ${ivy.status}" /> <ivy:info settingsRef="module-settings" file="${module.output.subdir}/ivy.xml" /> <echo message="post-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}" /> <echo message="post-info module: ${ivy.module}" /> <echo message="post-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" /> <echo message="post-info status: ${ivy.status}" /> </target> This is the output: test-mutability: [echo] pre-info organization: foo.bar [echo] pre-info module: mutant [echo] pre-info revision: 9.8 [echo] pre-info status: beta [ivy:info] :: Ivy 2.0.0-rc1 - 20080916082609 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ :: :: loading settings :: file = c:\allworkspaces\ebiz-1.6-rmtest\ivy-template\ivy-settings-common.xml [echo] post-info organization: com.mycompany.myorg [echo] post-info module: mymodule [echo] post-info revision: 3.0-dev1 [echo] post-info status: integration ----------------------------------------- ==================================================== This message contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL information that is intended only for use by the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, any disclosure, dissemination, or action based on the contents of this message is prohibited. In such case please notify us and destroy and delete all copies of this transmission. Thank you. ====================================================
