[Bug 65768] New: inconsistent documentation of environment variables

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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65768

            Bug ID: 65768
           Summary: inconsistent documentation of environment variables
           Product: Ant
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: notifications@ant.apache.org
          Reporter: gunpolishing369@cbfiddle.com
  Target Milestone: ---

https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/property.html

These statements are inconsistent:

Since Ant 1.8.2, if Ant detects it is running on a Java 5 or newer, Ant will
use System.getenv() rather than its own OS dependent native implementation. For
some OSes this causes minor differences when compared to older versions of Ant.
For a full list see Bugzilla Issue 49366.

When Ant started to support setting properties from environment variables it
ran on Java 1.2 where System.getEnv didn't work. So we decided to start a
command in a new process which prints the environment variables, analyzes the
output and creates the properties. Once Java 5 became our baseline we could
have switched to getEnv but it returned different results on some platforms so
we stuck with the command approach to remain backwards compatible.

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[Bug 65768] inconsistent documentation of environment variables

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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65768

Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |1.10.13
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
            Version|unspecified                 |1.10.12

--- Comment #1 from Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> ---
Many thanks, fixed for the next releases with
https://github.com/apache/ant/commit/df65998cff76c04d8e62dcb7c5219e87f7c499c1

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