On Tue 2009-06-23 at 18:38h, Niklas Matthies wrote on ivy-user: > On Tue 2009-06-23 at 11:18h, Shawn Castrianni wrote on ivy-user: > > I am trying to allow my users to experiment with dependencies. I do > > have real ivy.xml files for all of my modules. Right now, if my > > users want to experiment and change their dependencies of their > > module, they have to edit the dependencies section of the ivy.xml > > file. That is fine, however, by changing the real ivy.xml file, > > they may accidentally commit this change to the SVN repo by mistake. > > Therefore, I would like to somehow give them a way to add > > dependencies to the ones already listed in the ivy.xml file through > > some ANT property or something. Like: > > > > ant dependencies -DextraDependencies="A,B" > > > > my ant script could check if the extraDependencies property is set > > and then somehow tell ivy to add these two modules (A and B) to the > > list of dependencies found in the ivy.xml file > > I don't understand how adding dependencies to the Ivy file using Ant > instead of manually will prevent the modified Ivy file to be committed.
Ok, I think I've been confused by the "dependencies" ant target. Does it just retrieve the dependencies, or what is it supposed to do? -- Niklas Matthies
