-----Original Message----- From: Conor MacNeill [ <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:39 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: ant 1.5.4 : Import
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:23 am, Dominique Devienne wrote: > > I (strongly again ;) believe that imported build files should be > designed to be imported, and never used without being imported. I disagree (strongly :-). I think augmenting/overriding an existing build file is a valid use for import. I recently changed the checkstyle build I have been using (check.xml) to import Ant's build.xml to pick up property defs for various locations. Have a look. [KWW]-> Well, that's convenient, but not necessarily what I would have expected. A C or C++ program doesn't include another program just to get definitions. Instead, the definitions are put into a ".h" file, and both programs import that ".h" file of definitions. So, the definitions of locations could be in a "locations.xml" file, then imported by Ant's build.xml and your check.xml allowing both build files to share the definitions, but not pull in any unwanted things. <-[KWW] Conor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
