> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 11 March 2001 8:09 pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Alexandria project defs
>
>
> Jeff Martin wrote:
> >
> > What's the directory for?
>
> Perhaps best explained by example:
>
> <cvs repository="working-dogs" dir="town" />
> <cvs repository="working-dogs" dir="external"/>
>
> The cvsroot for these two differ only by the last directory element.
> Supporting this reduces the proliferation of repositories.
> Longer term, I
> would like to see the elements of a cvs repository separated out, for
> example:
>
> <root>
> <method>pserver</method>
> <user>anoncvs</user>
> <password>anoncvs</password>
> <hostname>jakarta.apache.org</hostname>
> <path>/home/cvspublic</path>
> </root>
I know that the port is almost always 2401, but it doesn't have to be...
> This would enable a workspace to override specific portions
> of the CVSROOT
> without overriding all.
>
> > So far I've been avoiding that one as it's a bit of a can of
> > worms as far as I can see. There are definitly things which
> > Ant provides that make life a lot easier i.e. XML output.
> > But I'm open to suggestions for ways to do this though if we
> > support other build machanisms then we'll need to support
> > other doumentaion tools and LXR as well as JXR. Where will
> > it end? ;o)
>
> For now, I simply spelled "build" as "ant" and nested any ant specific
> elements under it. I do however support "script" as an
> alternative, which
> I use for bootstrapping ant.
>
> > Err I think it's relative to the directory you run alexandria
> > from, to be honest I've never thought about it as I've alwayes
> > used absolute paths in it. @classpath is probably a bit of a
> > legacy attribute as it was in before the depend/option concepts
> > arrived. Although it does allow you to specifiy classes/jars
> > without defining a project for them.
>
> I've been hoping that multiple people could use the project
> definitions I
> produce, so I've tried to keep absolute paths should only exist in the
> workspace. (Of course, at the moment, people seem to want to reuse my
> workspace definition too, so I need to do more factoring like the
> repository changes suggested above).
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
>
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