Re: Use ivy-dependencies to create ant-tasks

2010-03-10 Thread marcdb
Mitch, Maarten, These are indeed interesting ideas. For what I want to do now, I think the best choice will be what Mitch suggested by creating build-configurations in an ivy.xml file. The reason why I prefer not to resolve inline, is that I would like to separate the build-logic from the version

Re: Use ivy-dependencies to create ant-tasks

2010-03-10 Thread Mitch Gitman
Marc, doing everything at once at init sounds a bit heavyweight and monolithic. Imagine you're resolving and retrieving 15 different task libraries when all you need for a given build is two or three. Instead, I would obtain tasks on an as-needed basis. So for example, the moment you need a partic

Re: Use ivy-dependencies to create ant-tasks

2010-03-10 Thread marcdb
Hi Mitch, Thanks for your suggestion. I'll try to do the following: In my central build file (used for building all projects), I will create an init-target which will: * execute an ivy:init * do an ivy:retrieve using that common ivy.xml file for the dependencies of my build-system itself. The app