On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Patrick Aikens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the workaround you're talking about... what > do you mean by "settings specific to IvyDE which merely include your > usual settings + load the properties file in which you define your > versions" - what settings would that be? Something like: ---8<--- <ivysettings> <properties file="/path/to/properties.to.load.properties" /> <include file="/path/to/ivysettings-used-from-ant.xml"/> </ivysettings> ---8<--- If you find this useful, feel free to document it in Ivy wiki! Xavier > > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Patrick Aikens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> I've asked this before and received no answers, so I want to try one > more > >> time > >> before giving in to maintaining a patch on top of ivy or ivyde... > >> > >> We use ant properties in our ivy.xml files to point to an external file > >> that > >> defines the configurations used in our modules and specify versions of > >> dependencies. IvyDE doesn't know how to deal with these properties - is > >> there > >> any way to make this work in Eclipse, or would we have to make IvyDE or > ivy > >> itself evaluate the properties in Eclipse? I can't imagine that we're > the > >> only > >> ones using properties for dependency versions since it wouldn't be > trivial > >> to > >> make sure that all ivy.xml files across a large set of projects keep the > >> version > >> of, say, log4j they use in sync. > > > > The workaround is to use settings specific to IvyDE which merely include > > your usual settings + load the properties file in which you define your > > versions. But I think there's an open issue in IvyDE JIRA asking to > support > > properties loading in IvyDE directly to avoid this 'trick', feel free to > > submit a patch. > > > > Xavier > > > > > > > > -- > > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant > > http://xhab.blogspot.com/ > > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ > > http://www.xoocode.org/ > > > > > > -- > SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0 > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
