I am willing to start changing <import> based on the email of Conor of July 29th, 2003. I am of course more than happy if other committers want to participate in the exercise.
> In fact I would like to rename <import> as <include> to reinforce the fact > that this is its primary function. In fact the problems we are seeing with > import all come because it tries to do two things beyond a simple #include > operation - target renaming and allowing imports to access resources > according to their import file location. > Do we want to do this renaming of <import> into <include> ? > > 1. import with optional name. The name is to be used in the renaming of > targets. > ProjectHelper2#onStartElement seems to be the place where this happens. > 2. Define a single property ant.import.file which is resolved at import time > to the import location. All other properties are nt resolved. > there is already an ant.file.[project_name] which gets generated in ProjectHelper2 if I understand correctly. Do we want to change the name of this property ? > 3. All containers are <project>s for IDE compatibility. Note, however, that > there will be some build files, designed to be imported, which will not be > valid standal;ong build files - e.g. their targets may depend on non-existent > targets which the importer is to provide. OK > > 4. All normal Ant operations (i.e. not imports) are resolved to the basedir of > the outer project. There is no access to other basedirs. > Does this imply changing some existing code ? > 5. Import specs are relative to importing file location. Don't use href as it > creates expectations of a URL which opens up issues. > This is already the case. Fine. > 6. An attribute may be added to the <project> element to mark a build file as > not importable. > Does not seem difficult. importable would be the name of the new attribute. > Keep it Simple. > Fully agreed. Antoine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
