Hi All,
I'm not all involved in struts2, but while browsing the web I've noticed
your page explaining how to skip ivy dependency resolution in an ant
build. Using -Dskip.ivy=true is good, we use a slightly easier way to do
that in our builds. We define a what I call a flag target (it does
nothing except setting a flag), in this case "noivy" for instance, which
simply sets the property. The difference is only cosmetic, you type "ant
noivy compile" for instance, instead of "ant -Dskip.ivy=true compile".
The advantage for the user is that it is slightly easier to remember,
and it's self documenting, adding a description on the target you can
get the standard "ant -p" help about it. The only problem is when you
want to call the default target (that is, do not specify the target when
calling ant), you still have to use -D, or define a "default" target
which depends on your real default target (so that users don't have to
remember which is the default target).
I don't know what you think, throw this away if you don't like the idea,
but usually developers I meet prefer this way to deal with
disabling/enabling features in an ant build. And the flag target doesn't
prevent the use of -D, so everybody's usually happy with that.
My 2 c.
-- Xavier Hanin
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