Re: Delayed properties resolving

In my project we are using a LDAP directory tree to store properties. 
This way, with the appropriate client code to read the properties, we 
can have all manners of overrides.

Handling properties is always work, because one is often dealing with 
different dimensions such :

- platform : properties defined for Solaris, HP-UX, ...
- development branch : if you are on a project with say a 4.0 and a 5.0 
and a 5.2 branch, you may have requirements to have different properties 
for each branch, for instance different email addresses of release 
manager to send emails to. You do not want to check in a property file 
with the actual name of the release manager in the source tree because 
otherwise horror and confusion will happen at merge time.
- location : you may be in a multilocal project with locations NYC, FRA, 
LON, ...

Some tree structure is always needed.

One thing which I did not try with cruisecontrol is to create one 
property file like this :

foo.property1=3 ponies
foo.property2=2 dogs
bar.property1=Joe
bar.property2=Sven

and a config.xml file like that

<project name="foo">

   <property name="${project.name}.property1" 
value="${{project.name}.property1}"/>
   <property name="${project.name}.property2" 
value="${{project.name}.property2}"/>
   <!-- hopefully get 3 ponies and 2 dogs here -->

</project>

<project name="bar">

   <property name="${project.name}.property1" 
value="${{project.name}.property1}"/>
   <property name="${project.name}.property2" 
value="${{project.name}.property2}"/>
   <!-- hopefully get Joe and Sven here -->

</project>

Regards,

Antoine


Daniel Tihelka wrote:
> Hallo Antoine,
>
> thank you very much for your hint. I have tried it using properties file 
> included into subprojects. It is working, however, not nice solution - you 
> have settings in 2+ files, which makes it harder to administrate :-( ...
>
> I include the listing of simple project I have tried.
>
> Thank you very much again.
> Dan
>
>
>   


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