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Maxim Kasimov - 15 Mar 2005 09:44 GMT

read thrue the manual, but can't get the simple thing:
is there way to specify options in command line, to use the values in build.xml,
instead of editing property value in build.xml file?

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Maxim

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Arnaud Berger - 15 Mar 2005 09:56 GMT

Hi,

I think you can pass properties the "Java way", i.e

: -Dpropertyname=propertyvalue

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Arnad

> read thrue the manual, but can't get the simple thing:
> is there way to specify options in command line, to use the values in build.xml,
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> Best regards,
> Maxim

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Arnaud Berger - 15 Mar 2005 09:57 GMT

I must add that ant may also use a "property file"

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Arnaud

> read thrue the manual, but can't get the simple thing:
> is there way to specify options in command line, to use the values in build.xml,
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> Best regards,
> Maxim

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Maxim Kasimov - 15 Mar 2005 10:47 GMT

> I must add that ant may also use a "property file"

using another file also mean "i have to edit text in a file" - it is very inconvenient

using more and more ant, it is seems to me that the ant is an evil thing.
i'm still using ant only because of preprocessor task of antenna.
is there such a tool to use it in command line? (for Windows/Unix)

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>
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Rhino - 15 Mar 2005 19:18 GMT

> > I must add that ant may also use a "property file"
> using another file also mean "i have to edit text in a file" - it is very inconvenient
>
> using more and more ant, it is seems to me that the ant is an evil thing.
> i'm still using ant only because of preprocessor task of antenna.
> is there such a tool to use it in command line? (for Windows/Unix)

Arnaud was right in his reply to your original question: you *can* use Ant
from the command line and pass parameters as he said. For example, the
following command tells Ant to execute a build file named run.xml and passes
in two property values from the command line, namely 'dept' an 'job'. The
'dept' property is given the value A00 and the 'job' property is given the
value Clerk. Note that there are no quotes, apostrophes, back tics or any
other punctuation around values of these two properties, even though they
are Strings:

ant -f run.xml -Ddept=A00 -Djob=Clerk

Rhino

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