default.properties

[Jason van Zyl <jv...@apache.org>]

Hi,

Is there any reason by we can't define everything in default.properties like
we we're doing in build.properties? If this method is working well in other
projects (dlr mentioned using it) than I will use the same method in the TDK
but I don't really like defining properties in the top-level of the
build.xml file.

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Re: default.properties

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com> writes:

> I don't see any reason why not.  Using default.properties allows
> people to personalize project properties using a
> project/build.properties file, while supplying reasonable defaults for
> the properties used by the build.xml file.  I believe that this is
> customary in a few other Jakarta projects as well.

...though most of those other projects inline their defaults into
their build.xml file, unfortunately.

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Re: default.properties

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

Jason van Zyl <jv...@apache.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any reason by we can't define everything in default.properties like
> we were doing in build.properties?

I don't see any reason why not.  Using default.properties allows
people to personalize project properties using a
project/build.properties file, while supplying reasonable defaults for
the properties used by the build.xml file.  I believe that this is
customary in a few other Jakarta projects as well.

> If this method is working well in other
> projects (dlr mentioned using it) than I will use the same method in the TDK
> but I don't really like defining properties in the top-level of the
> build.xml file.

Neither do I.

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