Hi, I posted this message last week to this mailing list without getting any response. It's difficult to tell if just nobody had time/interest to reply on this topic or if I maybe ignorantly violated some netiquette of yours. If the latter is the case, I'd be happy if someone could enlighten me on this. Anyway, I'll give it another try.
One of the requested features for Ant2 was for the <ant> task to find build files according to a fileset and invoke a common target in them (as stated in http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/requested-features.txt). I just wanted to know if any progress has been made on this issue regarding closer specification, or (even better) implementation? One problem that I see with this task is that not only all the buildfiles (currently the optional "antfile" attribute) need to be specified, but also the basedir to use for the calls (the "dir" attribute). There clearly exists some overlap between these two attributes, as the buildfile will most likely be in a subdirectory of the basedir for that "subproject". One solution would be to only specify the basedirs in the fileset (assuming the future fileset type will allow this) and require all buildfiles to be in a specified relative directory to these basedirs. Default would of course be the case where the buildfile is called "build.xml" and is located in the basedirs themselves. Another, less elegant IMHO, option would be to let the buildfiles make up the fileset and optionaly specify the basedirs to be relative to those (e.g. "../.."). Are there any other concrete ideas on how to go about this problem? Regards, -- knut
