Peter Donald wrote: > Something similar has been suggested before except it used a > different > syntax. Namely > > <project ...> > <projectref name="foo" location="...uri or project file..."/> > > ... > <fileset refid="foo:struts.library" /> > ... > > </project> > > > As yet no one has championed this type of feature or not ;) >
This syntax seems to be even nicer. If something like this is accepted by the core development team, I'd try my best to help in implementing it. I didn't look at the sources yet, but I imagine a problem might be to get working java.net.* stuff (like various URLConnection implementations) into the core package without bloating it. For the most parts, however, I think standard Java2 packages will suffice (JarURLConnection, HttpUrlConnection, ZipURLConnection or whatever), so no further dependencies have to be added to the core package. Too bad you can't make it a custom task, as the standard "refid" attribute is affected. Ciao, Mirko
