Just as <java> can take either an individual <sysproperty> or an entire <syspropertyset>, it would sometimes be useful to have <java> (and <exec> and <apply>) accept an <envset> of type PropertySet. This would let you e.g. define extra environment variables to pass to a process in a *.properties file and have them be defined with no change to the build script.
This has been discussed > once. The last time the discussion died due to dissension RE how exactly to implement: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111565769800002&r=1&w=2 Anyway, the general opinion was favorable. Are you working on this, Jesse? If not, I can.
I am not working on it. I just realized this was missing and wanted to track it.
is/has there been any progress on this? I am currently using "Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010" and would very much like this feature for my current project. if there is no progress i would be happy to try implementing it myself.. but just a status update for now would be good.
Nothing has been done on this to my recollection since the time of the email thread I pointed out in Comment 1. Thanks for the ping. I'll try and remember to see what I can do in the near future.