I have written an ANT pre-processor that supports "smart" includes with support of rebasing properties and paths, and renaming properties and targets to avoid clashes. It supports recursive includes, so build files can reference each others properties and targets. It is also possible to generate some includes with a script and overwrite targets in other build files. I will ask my boss for permission to publish the code.
- Alexey. -----Original Message----- From: Costin Manolache [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Improt task and project basedir Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > Do you really think I can get the buildfiles of lets say 5 different > jakarta projects and just import all of them on my build file and then > with a few additional main targets being able to build all those projects > on one go? Why not ? Maybe not any 5 different projects - but at least for the 4-5 tomcat components, most commons, etc. Maybe with small changes. > What about clashes on property names? Are we going to have separte names > spaces for properties declared in different import files? How would I > access properties fro imported build files then. Property names - clashes are desirable :-) ( i.e. same naming conventions for locating .jars, paths, etc ). For targets - we already rewrite then on conflict. That's where some changes may be needed in the build files. I'm not sure I understood your proposal for basedir - you disagree with using the imported file basedir as default, but I fail to see what alternative you propose and what use case. Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
