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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com> on 2001/06/26 00:49:31 UTC
Re: property setting
--- "J. Michael Caine" <jm...@alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> why does "message = red" always get printed here? shouldn't "message =
> green" be printed?
>
> <project name="test">
> <property name="color" value="red"/>
> <target name="bogus">
> <property name="color" value="green"/>
> <echo message="message = ${color}"/>
> </target>
> </project>
Nope -- once a property is set, it can't be reset, except when using the
<antcall>/<ant> tasks. See the doc for info on those tasks.
P.S. This type of question should really go to ant-user.
Diane
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RE: property setting
Posted by "J. Michael Caine" <jm...@alum.rpi.edu>.
thank you.
i realize this ought to be an ant-user post. my mistake. sorry for
littering this group.
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Holt [mailto:holtdl@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:50 PM
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org; mcaine@artlogic.com
Subject: Re: property setting
--- "J. Michael Caine" <jm...@alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> why does "message = red" always get printed here? shouldn't "message =
> green" be printed?
>
> <project name="test">
> <property name="color" value="red"/>
> <target name="bogus">
> <property name="color" value="green"/>
> <echo message="message = ${color}"/>
> </target>
> </project>
Nope -- once a property is set, it can't be reset, except when using the
<antcall>/<ant> tasks. See the doc for info on those tasks.
P.S. This type of question should really go to ant-user.
Diane
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