Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > > > 1) Refactor the project-info.xml to split in several files contained > > > in the blocks themselves. > > Just like Eclipse plugin.xml files in their plugins, a plugin is > > installed by just dropping it in the plugins dir. Usecase: This will > > make it easy for me to maintain my JavadocSource block (or any > > (external) block for that matter), now I need to sync each time when > > project-info.xml changes ;-) > > This is called for, I totally agree. I was going to tackle that problem > today, anybody against this? > > is anything using that project-info.xml file or is just a left-over from > the old build system? > The build mechanism uses it to generate the build file; but I guess you know this - apart from that, I don't think so. Isn't this a gump descriptor? For me it looks totally confusing anyway. So I'm +1 on removing it and replacing it with per block-versions that use a better XML syntax. For pluggable blocks we need this anyway.
Carsten
