svn commit 118 added the following line:

+                <exclude name="build.*"/>

(to samples/grails/build.xml)

Which causes build.properties to be excluded from the package.  This seems
to be a problem...

Having installed the package on Ubuntu 8.10 I get the following symptoms:

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$ grails create-app test

Welcome to Grails null - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /usr/share/grails        

...
[propertyfile] Updating property file: /tmp/test/application.properties
Created Grails Application at /tmp/test

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Note the null in "Welcome to Grails null".

The resulting application.properties file contains:

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#Fri Nov 28 19:09:48 GMT 2008
app.version=0.1
app.servlet.version=2.4
app.grails.version=null
app.name=test

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Note the "null" for app.grails.version.

Now when trying to run "grails create-domain-class" I get:

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$ grails create-domain-class test1

Welcome to Grails null - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /usr/share/grails        

Base Directory: /tmp/test
Note: No plugin scripts found
Running script /usr/share/grails/scripts/CreateDomainClass.groovy
Environment set to development
Application expects grails version [null], but GRAILS_HOME is version
[null] - use the correct Grails version or run 'grails upgrade' if this
Grails version is newer than the version your application expects.

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Manually fixing application.properties to contain
"app.grails.version=1.0.4" alters the error slightly:

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$ grails create-domain-class test1

Welcome to Grails null - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /usr/share/grails        

Base Directory: /tmp/test
Note: No plugin scripts found
Running script /usr/share/grails/scripts/CreateDomainClass.groovy
Environment set to development
Application expects grails version [1.0.4], but GRAILS_HOME is version
[null] - use the correct Grails version or run 'grails upgrade' if this
Grails version is newer than the version your application expects.

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Copying the build.properties file from the grails 1.0.4 binary available
from grails.org into /usr/share/grails fixes the problem.

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$ grails create-domain-class test1

Welcome to Grails 1.0.4 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /usr/share/grails        

Base Directory: /tmp/test
Note: No plugin scripts found
Running script /usr/share/grails/scripts/CreateDomainClass.groovy
Environment set to development
     [copy] Copying 1 file to /tmp/test/grails-app/domain
Created Domain Class for Test1
     [copy] Copying 1 file to /tmp/test/test/integration
Created Tests for Test1

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