[IVY-608] Add support for importing environment variables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-beta-2
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Jing Xue
• Created: 23/Sep/07 00:52
• Updated: 09/Jan/08 21:05
• Resolved: 09/Jan/08 21:05

Description

Ant supports importing environment variables into properties via the <properties environment="env" /> task. If an ivysettings.xml relies on an environment variable, the lack of support for this feature in Ivy makes it difficult to reuse the same ivysettings.xml in a non-Ant environment, such as in IvyDE. I'm submitting a patch to add the support for JDK 1.5+. This implementation will throw an exception when running in lesser JVMs.