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I recently wanted to setup a system whereby I could define several variables in the project.properties file, and have them inserted into the License definition file. Specifically, I wanted to be able to define a project-level "owner" so that the copyright would be assigned to the right place*. However, the Template engine is not powerful enough to support this as it only seems to be able to read the variable named "project.license" and not anything such as "project.owner". Please enable this support... I am constantly being surprised by how cumbersome and useless the templating system is! * My company owns the copyright on work projects, I own the copyright on my open source projects, and on some open source projects I assign the copyright to say, FSF.
It seems to belong to apisupport component. Please evaluate - feel free to reassign. Thanks.
more likely something that would have to be added to all project types in their CreateFromTemplateAttributesProvider implementations. See org.netbeans.modules.java.api.common.queries.QuerySupport.createTemplateAttributesProvider() for example. IMHO rather than reading bare project.properties, we should have some kind of UI and have explicitly added/edited properties there only. Maybe added through AuxiliaryProperties, and physically added to project.xml file, rather than project.properties (which is used in ant and could have strange sideeffects) not a defect.
Change of default owner.
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