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authorStefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>2021-12-28 18:47:37 +0100
committerStefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>2021-12-28 18:47:37 +0100
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variables it ran on Java 1.2 where <code class="code">System.getEnv</code> didn't
work. So we decided to start a command in a new process which prints
the environment variables, analyzes the output and creates the
- properties. Once Java 5 became our baseline we could have switched
- to <code class="code">getEnv</code> but it returned different results on some
- platforms so we stuck with the command approach to remain backwards
- compatible.
+ properties. With Ant 1.9.0 when we started to require Java 5 we switched back
+ to <code class="code">System.getEnv</code> even though it returned different results on some
+ platforms. The commands described below are still used on OpenVMS or
+ if <code class="code">System.getEnv</code> throws an exception.
</p>
<p>
There are commands for the following operating systems implemented in