Hi Susanne, On 29/10/2009, at 12:11 AM, Susanne Schneider wrote:
I've been trapped by this too. In contrast to normal programming behaviour ant works the other way round: the first setting a property will win. Once a property is set it cannot change to anything else! Properties are no variables, see the ant manual for this.
Thanks for the reply. If I ever knew that about Ant, I had forgotten it.
In any case, the bit that surprised me was that all the Resources/ Properties files were being read by Ant at build-time at all. I suppose I had always assumed they were strictly run-time properties, but here they are being read at build-time as well? If that's really what I was seeing, maybe I'm just the only person on the list surprised by it.
Am I just imagining it, or are the properties in the framework's Resources/ Properties file being imported by Ant as build properties, and are they overriding the definitions in the app's build.properties?
So the second part of that question is answered by Susanne: yes, because with Ant it's "first definition wins".
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