"Donald Strong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Has anyone done any work on or know of a project that uses a build > configuration similar to Maven but then delegates to Ant targets? > > Perhaps thats what Maven does now, it has been a while since I looked at > it. Last time we tried it Maven was ideal for building and publishing > java libraries on the net but our requirments go in a different direction. > > I know that prior to Ant 1.6 there were xslt ant file generation scripts > that did stuff similar to Ant Macros. Could these be used to generate > ant scripts from a project configuration? > > What I want to be able to do is to get the developers to describe the > filesets for the source code and the dependencies between components > and other config stuff and the build meister to write the build process > using Ant. I get the feeling this is almost possible with macros.
Hello, You just described the build system I have written for my company - except I have a dedicated build.xml generation, instead of macro or xslt. Its main interesting points are: - really fast (only 1 build.xml to compile many modules with specific classpath for each module) - easily extensible: a plugin can generate project properties and add new targets in the build.xml and eventually create and use new Ant task - easily understandable: it is pure Ant and Java, core build system consists in 33 classes, 5 Ant build files (1 bootstrap and 4 plugins) and 1 property file. I think it covers really common needs but "negotiation" is in progress to publish it as open source... I will let you know here when published. Regards -- Yves Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
