AW: ant -u http://somewhere/build.xml

[Jan.Materne]

>> We have a need for ant to be easily able to use a build.xml file 
>> available on a remote server, which means that I would really like to

>> be able to provide an URL instead of a filename to ant.

>the import task in 1.8.x supports importing resources which can be
URLs. 
>So maybe the main build file cannot be http based, but the meat of the 
>build file can. So maybe you can have a stub of a build file 
>on the file system ?


If the easiest "URL buildfile scenario" is

$ant -f build.xml -Durl=...

<project>
  <import><url url="${url}"/></import>
</project>


A shorter way would

$ant -u url -basedir .

which autoloads that buildfile sets the url and basedir and all should
work?



Jan

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