Jan/Jeffrey, Thanks for all the information and context .. :-) Jan, I agree - We should proceed with investigation and development. I shall probably come back for help from the IvyDE team when we can make use of the plugin's extension points.
Thanks much, Siddhartha 2009/3/30 <jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de> > > Thus, meaning that a sensible approach for us to follow may > > be to build on top of existing Ant and IvyDE plugins for Eclipse. > > > > At a more detailed level, for us, it would mean: > > 1. Need for addition of tags/attributes to standard ant scripts. > > 2. Need for Addition of tags/attributes to standard ivy files. > > > > Can someone advise on: > > 1. Feasibility of such approach, i.e. to enhance this functionality, > and > > create a separate plugin - from both ant and ivy plugins perspective. > > For development lifecycle I would recommend writing your own > EasyAnt-Plugin. > You should then ask the two teams (IvyDE and Eclipse-Ant-PlugIn) for > required > extension points. > If your adds are more generic you also could provide patches for these > two plugins. > > > > 2. Where I can find sources for both these. > > IvyDE is in the repo of Apache Ant > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/ivyde/trunk/ > > The Ant plugin is, as Jeffrey said, part of Eclipse itself (plugins > org.eclipse.ant*, org.apache.ant is 'just' Ant itself - without docs). > > > > I know this is the dev mailing list for IvyDE but, am not sure about > Ant. > > Funny. d...@ant was created for the development of Ant and was widened > for the development of Ivy + IvyDE after their joining ;) > > You have all the developers here at d...@ant: Ant, Ivy, IvyDE - and some > Eclipse-Ant developers are also listening. > > > > If this is not the correct place for ant, does someone know > > where I should be writing for the Ant plugin? > > The correct mailinglist should be platform-ant-...@eclipse.org. > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=eclipse.pl > atform > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-ant-dev > > > > Jan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > >
