i subscribe to this approach as well.
question:
it seems to me that when i build a "branch of a project", eg:
<javac srcdir="${dir.src}/util/src/falcon/util"
destdir="${dir.build}/client/classes"/>
where the project package is rooted at falcon, that any and
all resources (eg falcon/util/foo.properties) *do not* end up
co-located with the relevant branch classes yet are instead
deposited at the destdir. put another way, i wonder if something
in ant/javac is broken when it comes to prepending the src
package name for non-java source objects.
to work around this i have a peer "resource" directory structure
which gets overlayed on the javac destdir with a simply
copydir call, eg:
<copydir src ="${dir.src}/util/resources/falcont"
dest="${dir.build}/client/classes/falcon"/>
that said i'd like to avoid this second step and the associated
bookeeping all together. any ideas?
thx much,
- james
"Kuiper, Arnout" wrote:
> You got a valid point here, although I'm not sure if we must bother
> the user by explicitly passing properties to sub-projects.
>
> For myself I use some sort of namespacing to prevent property clashes;
> I prepend every property inside a project, with the projects name.
> So in a project with the name "foenix", I have properties called
> "foenix.src", "foenix.dist", etc.
> This way, the user can override the settings for each project,
> including all subproject, from the commandline, and we don't have
> naming conflicts between projects.
>
> Personally I like the "namespacing" approach better.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Arnout
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ludovic Claude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: zondag 30 januari 2000 22:14
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Properties and subprojects
> >
> >
> >
> > Still struggling with Ant & properties ... Now I came across
> > a problem with ant
> > subprojects:
> > By default, when you launch a subproject, all the properties
> > defined in the
> > parent project override
> > the subproject properties.
> > But if I define in the parent project a property called
> > src.dir, and in the
> > subproject a property with
> > the same name, they may not have the same value, so you need
> > to keep the
> > subproject value when
> > running it from the parent project.
> > I added a patch to Ant.java, so now you have a property
> > called properties where
> > you can
> > explicitely give the list of properties to use from the
> > parent project. By
> > default, you still have the
> > old behavior of using all properties from the parent project.
> >
> > You can download the new Ant.java file from
> > http://www.ringsys.co.uk/opensource/Ant.java
> > And the diff is
> > http://www.ringsys.co.uk/opensource/Ant.java.diff
> >
> > Ludovic Claude.
> >
> >
> >
