Re: Environment variables

On 6 Oct 2004, at 18:19, Kevin Jones wrote:
> I have some old-ish Groovy scripts that worked with a version of 
> Groovy from
> March. I downloaded beta 7 and two things stopped working. The first is
> access to environment variables. I have a script that looks like this:
>
> ant.copy(toDir: "${SYSTEMROOT}", file: "scripts\\mysql\\my.ini",
> overwrite:true) {
>   filterset() {
>     filter(token: "DIR", value: "${mysqlhomedir}")
>   }
> }
>
> In the 'March' groovy this works, in beta 7 it fails with an
> IncompatibleClassChangeError (is this the only error Groovy throws :) 
> ) at
> getGroovyObjectProperty. SYSTEMROOT is set by Windows to reference the 
> dir
> that windows is installed. I'll mention the other problem in another 
> email,

Incidentally are you using the same JVM - its not a bug introduced by 
switching to Java 5 or anything like that is it?

I didn't know we ever supported environment variables in scripts :)

James
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