[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Ant build best practices

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When setting up the development / ops workflow I found particularly useful to load any environment specifics from an external property file. When moving from dev to test to acceptance and production we use the exact same (build.xml) script, which itself is actually stored in the same SCM repo as the rest of the sources. As of the granularity, I would advise to only split files if part can be re-used. Navigating back and forth between different is not as easy as normaly with source code and a good editor, so sometimes you get lost if there's more than 1 or 2 .xml files involved (of maybe that's just my aging memory).

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