Hi, if I use a parent descriptor for my ivy.xml using <extends> inside <info> tag the <exclude>s defined in the dependencies tag are completely ignored. This seems not to be a bug because in the documentation of <extends> (see http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/extends.html ) there is no value like "excludes" for attribute extendType.
Why is this so? Is there a workaround? I have the following use case where it would be very important if the <exclude> from the parent descriptor could be inherited: When I develop OSGi bundles or Eclipse Plugins and want to use Ivy's OSGi support I have to put in the ivy.xml a lot of excludes because of the dependencies of bundles/plugins to the execution environment (see http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/osgi/osgi-mapping.html section "Execution Environment"). Now my idea was to put all these excludes in a parent descriptor of the module descriptor of my OSGi bundle/Eclipse plugin. Example: ivy-parent.xml (parent descriptor) contains <ivy-module version="2.2" xmlns:o="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/osgi";> <info organisation="meta-level" module="osgi-parent"> <extends organisation="bundle" module="de.metalevel.eclipse.mlbuild.ivyPDE" revision="1.0.0.qualifier" location="META-INF/MANIFEST.MF"/> </info> ..... <dependencies> <!-- Ivy-Osgi doesn't understand bundle fragment --> <dependency org="bundle" name="org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86" rev="3.+" conf="win32->default" /> ..... <exclude org="bundle" module="system.bundle"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.crypto"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.crypto.spec"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.security.auth"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.security.auth.callback"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.security.auth.login"/> <exclude org="package" module="javax.security.auth.spi"/> <exclude org="package" module="org.w3c.dom.events"/> </dependencies> ivy.xml (for OSGi bundle) contains <ivy-module version="2.2" xmlns:o="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/osgi";> <info organisation="bundle" module="mlbuild"> <extends organisation="meta-level" module="osgi-parent" revision="latest.integration" location="ivy-parent.xml"/> </info> </ivy-module> Greetings, Riccardo -- META-LEVEL Software AG Saarbrücker Str. 51 66130 Saarbrücken Deutschland Tel: +49 - 681 / 99687-0 Fax: +49 - 681 / 99687-99 Mail: i...@meta-level.de Web: www.meta-level.de Rechtsform: Aktiengesellschaft Sitz: Saarbrücken HR B Nr. 13 380 Amtsgericht Saarbrücken USt-IdNr. DE 1 38 166667 Vorstände: Dipl.-Inform. Peter Badt und Dipl.-Inform. Peter Raber Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Reinhard Kuhn
