On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Nicolas Lalevée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 mai 2008, Xavier Hanin a écrit : > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Nicolas Lalevée > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > Le mardi 20 mai 2008, John O'Grady a écrit : > > > > Forgive me if this is the wrong list for these questions. > > > > > > This is the good place ! :) > > > > > > > I was wondering if there is some reason that the Eclipse plugin > (IvyDE) > > > > will not look for an ivysettings.xml file on a per-project basis, and > > > > then why the path the plugin is looking for for the ivysettings.xml > > > > file is not project-rooted? > > > > > > There is some usecase where you have a lot of different projects, but > one > > > configuration. Then you want to specify absolute path. > > > > > > > On that last point, at work we have project-specific ivysettings.xml > > > > files, and because the plugin looks for that file on a file-system > > > > basis rather than a project basis, it makes using the plugin with our > > > > projects impossible, since if we share the Eclipse settings files, > the > > > > path for the locations of the ivysettings.xml file may differ per > > > > developer > > > > > > machine. > > > > > > First, which version of IvyDE are you using ? > > > > > > Then the feature you are talking about should work since the version > > > 1.1.0. > > > (IVYDE-25). If it doesn't please open a Jira issue. > > > > I use project specific settings every day, and it works like a charm. The > > syntax is awkward (file://./ivysettings.xml as URL), but you don't see > this > > too often. Easing this configuration would be a nice improvement though. > > yep, I thought of new scheme, project:, which also should allow to point to > other project. > projet://mymasterproject/ivysettings.xml > projet:///ivysettings.xml => point to "current" project > > I think that would be cool if we can also make the UI support that, > special "browse by project button" and so on. > I should probably put it into a Jira issue! Very good ideas! I like 'em! Xavier > > Nicolas > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
