On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:29:12PM -0500, Geoff Howard wrote: > Tim Larson wrote: > > >On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:52:21AM -0500, Brian McCallister wrote: > >>What can I do to help out? (ie -- any pointers on what needs doing and > >>no one has stepped up to plate for). > > > >Create a development/live toggle for Cocoon: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105347757500001&r=1&w=2 > > Of course a lot of what was missing from Xpatch during that thread has > since been added (see wiki). The xpatch now has if and unless ant-style > properties which react on either an ant property or a node's existence in > the target file, as well as property-expansion. > > What is still missing and would be helpful (and pretty dead easy I think) > would be to allow build-time switching user build properties and blocks > properties. I.e., instead of always using local.blocks.properties, allow > something like -Dproperties.prefix=live which would cause the build to use > live.blocks.properties instead. Actually, that's probably a two liner in > init-build.xml
For a test system, I think it would be helpful to have a live, run-time dev/live switch to shorten test cycles and regression tests after each change. --Tim Larson
