[ant] branch 1.9.x updated: properly describe how Ant reads environment variables

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/1.9.x by this push:
     new 96ca021  properly describe how Ant reads environment variables
96ca021 is described below

commit 96ca021c758da63ddfb00a7dff93f30417ebe616
Author: Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 28 18:46:15 2021 +0100

    properly describe how Ant reads environment variables
    
    closes https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65768
---
 manual/Tasks/property.html | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual/Tasks/property.html b/manual/Tasks/property.html
index 42250b9..df406b0 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/property.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/property.html
@@ -319,10 +319,10 @@ deploy.url=http://${deploy.server}:${deploy.port}/
   variables it ran on Java 1.2 where <code>System.getEnv</code> 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 <code>getEnv</code> but it returned different results on some
-  platforms so we stuck with the command approach to remain backwards
-  compatible.
+  properties. With Ant 1.9.0 when we started to require Java 5 we switched back
+  to <code>System.getEnv</code> even though it returned different results on some
+  platforms. The commands described below are still used on OpenVMS or
+  if <code>System.getEnv</code> throws an exception.
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