It depends what the root for the copy on the cache is. :-) If each imported file specifies its own <fetchimport> there should work ok. No?
Jose Alberto > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 November 2005 20:17 > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Importing and caching build files from a URL > > > We could add some macro task that copies the resources into a cache > directory and then applies the <import> from there. > > > > What this would mean is that all the "relative" stuff will be relative > to the cache location. Something like: > > > > <fetchimport cache=dir> > > <resource href="http:...."/> > > </fetchimport> > > > > The macro will use <get> to put it in the cache and then use import on > the content of the cache. > > I think it wouldn't solve the relative issues, no? Once in the cache, > we'd have basically flatened the resources, no? Consider > http://foo/bar.xml importing http://foo/bar/baz.xml. We hrefs, we'd > have bar.xml <import href="bar/baz.xml">, but if you fetch both into a > cache dir, they'd sit next to each other in the file system, no? > > I'm more in favor of <import> supporting URLs directly I think, if at all. > --DD > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
