Make ivy.xml <conf description> available
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Key: IVY-1158
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1158
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Ant
Reporter: Jan Matèrne
Priority: Minor
You can (an IMHO should) write an explanation of the configuration in the ivy
file
<ivy-module version="2.0">
<configurations>
<conf name="runtime" description="Runtime Libraries"/>
</configurations>
</ivy-module>
The Ant task <ivy:info/> makes the names names available, but not the
descriptions.
So the first RFE is making them available (accoding to
'infotest.configurations') as 'infotest.configuration.descriptions'.
Another RFE is enhanding <ivy:retrieve/> to create a describing file in the
destination directory which contains this information.
E.e. with Ivy pattern lib/[conf]/[artifact].[ext] you would create with
<ivy:retrieve descriptionfile="readme.txt"/> a file lib/runtime/readme.txt with
content "Runtime Libraries".
(!! Recreate old files, but beware that multiple confs could result in the same
dir if the ivy pattern doesnt contain a [conf]. )
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