Hi, On Wed, 1 May 2002 21:57, Jeff Turner wrote: > Now would be a good time to voice any opinions on these dist targets, > before I replicate them across 30 projects..
Haven't had a chance to look at it yet but one thing I would really consider looking into is to dynamically generating the buildfiles. What do I mean? Over in myrmidon each project has a project.xml that is a stripped descriptor partway between mavens descriptor and centipedes module.xml - we then apply a XSL stylesheet to generate the "real" build file. The nice thing about this is that it is easy to add or remove something from all the sub-projects or convert them to a new build system or whatever. Considering we may (are?) going to move to a new build system for documentation that will require significant restructuring - it may be a good time to do it now. If you want have a look at jakarta-ant-myrmidon/build.xml (driver script) jakarta-ant-myrmidon/container/project.xml (project descriptor) jakarta-ant-myrmidon/tools/xsl/build.xsl (styleshet) We could then use that to generate all the required infrastructure for the centipede build when we change with minimal impact on anyone. In the long term we may even be able to "inline" the targets from cents which would be a really kool thing. That way our end users would still be using regular build files (and thus no need to worry about these extra build tools) but we get to use centipede or whatever. BTW I just uploaded a JarLibResolver task to ant1.5 branch that is based on your dependencies script (I added you as an author as I basically copied your script into code). I would love for you to have a look at it and make sure it works for you and that there is no hidden uglies in it or things I have forgotten. -- Cheers, Peter Donald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
