Sreenivas Munnangi wrote:
> Ed Burns wrote:
>
>>>>>>>On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:47 -0700, Sreenivas Munnangi <Sreenivas.Munnangi_at_Sun.COM> said:
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>>SM> The build.properties is put in based on the bug filed by QA.
>>SM> The UserReadme.html has instructions to update the properties.
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>>SM> Could you pl. update the properties based on your installation and let
>>SM> me know if it is still an issue. If you are using your own
>>SM> ~/build.properties, you can rename bp-project/build.properties so that
>>SM> it is doesn't come in the way.
>>
>>Ok, so it's supposed to be that way. Can we change the filename to
>>build.properties.sample? That's a common approach.
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> The bp-project already has build.properties.sample which is used as a
> template. The same template is used even for build.properties which
> caters to default use case.
>
> Perhaps, we xan exclude build.properties.sample from the distribution
> and users can rename build.properties to any name they want it.
Can we do the opposite: remove build.properties and leave/modify
build.properties.sample to be copied over if necessary? This will also ensure
that no developer incidentally overrides the defaults.
Regards,
-marina
>
> Pl. let me know so that I can file a bug.
>
>>Does anyone else think it should be named build.properties.sample by
>>default?
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>>Ed
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