Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:02 PM 5/31/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> >>So don't define the compile target in that thing you include with >>projectref at all and provide this single target in all 17 build >>files (as they all seem to be different anyway)? > > And loose maintainability.
Why so? All targets that are the same are in the shared file while all that are different will be maintained independently - or they are not that different at all 8-) > What happens when you need to modify how javac works modify in what way? debug/deprecation and friends? User preferences. > or worse the order of tasks. For all build files in the same way? So refactoring them to have a common target that contains exactly those tasks seems appropriate. > That would mean you are relegated to modifying 17 build files - > completely defeats the point of having templating don't you think ;) If this was true, yes. How would your configuration/templating aproach deal with this? Stefan
