"Kyle Adams" wrote:
> For example, our user management app may only have the back-end
implemented.
> So the directory for the app would have only one subdirectory. On the
other
> hand, our customer management app may have the front-end and the back-end
> implemented, so the directory would contain two directories.
>
> These subdirectories use standard names, so that's not a problem, and
there
> will always be between 1 and 3. It's just a matter of how many.
>
> Is it reasonable to ask Ant to do this? Or should I be looking at another
tool > (say, a Perl script) that then passes each subdirectory to Ant?
I think it's perfectly reasonable! I've had experience with creating
frameworks and stuff and also with building makefiles that dynamically
recurses down to any subdirectory that contains a proper makefile.
Experimenting a bit with Ant, I tried to do the same (with the Ant task)
but I couldn't make it work. Instead I created my own task, SubProject,
which will call Ant recursively on any number of build-files, specified
with a nested 'fileset' element.
For example,
<target name="build" depends="init">
<subproject target="build">
<fileset dir="${basedir}">
<patternset>
<include name="*/build.xml" />
</patternset>
</fileset>
<property name="foo" value="baz" />
</subproject>
</target>
I think it works really well and will post it to the ant-dev mailing list
as soon as I've cleaned up the code and finished the documentation.
In the meantime, if you're interrested, drop me a letter and I'll
send you the source right away!
/MiKe
Mikael Brandt
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