cederb...@gmail.com wrote on 11/08/2011 01:59:23 AM: > Thought it would be neat to setup or compile projects with a remote > buildfile. Like this: > > #> ant -f http://www.myproject.org/setup-1.0.xml > > So I hacked up some support for it in the following GitHub branch: > https://github.com/cederberg/ant > > Seems to work, but I haven't really used it or tested it properly yet.
It's an interesting feature but I'm not sure I would never let any of the products that I build do this. Who is controlling that remote resource? Who is ensuring that it's not deleted, moved or changed two years down the road & thus breaking the ability to recreate old builds? Some projects don't care about the ability to recreate old builds & for them these concerns aren't on their radar. If you do care about recreatibility then, IMO, using this feature is asking for trouble.
