Looks cool . Very similar to what Savant currently provides with plugins and dependency management.
We have a new set of plugins coming soon that provide a new way of handling pre and post hooks for targets. I'll send out an email once it is ready to go. -bp On Feb 9, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Jean-Louis Boudart wrote: > The EasyAnt <http://easyant.org/trac/wiki/EasyAnt> project is pleased to > announce its 0.7 version. > > Easyant is a build system, that is based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. > > Our goals are : > > - to leverage popularity and flexibility of Ant. > - to integrate Apache Ivy, such that the build system combines a > ready-to-use dependency manager. > - to simplify standard build types, such as building web applications, > JARs etc, by providing ready to use builds. > - to provide conventions and guidelines. > - to make plugging-in of fresh functionalities easy as writing simple Ant > scripts as Easyant plugins. > > To still remain adaptable, > > - Though Easyant comes with a lot of conventions, we never lock you in. > - Easyant allows you to easily extend existing modules or create and use > your own modules. > - Easyant makes migration from Ant very simple. Your legacy Ant scripts > could still be leveraged with Easyant. > > What's new in 0.7? > > - use latest official ant (no more a patched version) > - refactor antcontrib usage, antcontrib is now considered as a dependency > of easyant-core > - add the capabilty to override target/phases defined in module.ivy > (override.module.ant) > - enhanced multimodule support > - full support for all standard build phases > - full support for Ivy descriptor "extends" > - build-scoped repository should allow overwrites (#74) > - meta-build: better support for custom ivysettings.xml (#75) > - use two cache instance (one for easyant plugins/buildtypes, one for > project) > - use cache by default instead of retrieving in lib directory > - simplify version management : uses revision attribute in module.ivy > instead of a specific property (#81) > - simplify syntax of easyant tags, plugins/buildtypes now support two > ways to be imported (#84): > - using mrid > > <plugin mrid="org.apache.easyant.plugins#run-java;0.1"/> > > - using exploded style > > <plugin org="org.apache.easyant.plugins" module="run-java" > revision="0.1"/> > > - support Shortcut on buildtypes / plugins / skeletons in mrid style > (#73) > - make the help more helpful (#13) introduce new useful command line > lines switches (listTargets, listPlugins, listPhases, listProps, describe) > - add validation on easyant config files > - refactor the repository structure : default plugins/buildtypes are now > shipped in easyant-core.jar, additional plugins are now shipped in > easyant-extra-plugins.jar (#80) > - add support for provided artifacts (#83) > - performance improvement > - javadoc/scaladoc are no more imported in default buildtypes > - enhanced clean cache mechanism (can now clean easyant-cache or project > cache) (#79, #80) > - add default skeleton for : > - standard java application > - standard java webapplication > - add new plugins > - a small webstart plugins (Thanks to Nicolas Gapaillard for the contrib > !) > - docbook plugin (#62) > - cobertura coverage plugin / "abstract-coverage" support (#67) > - a new build type for easyant plugin (simplify easyant plugin > development) #85 > - improve skeleton plugin (#86) > - add support for LICENSE/NOTICE files in package-jar / package-war > plugins (#87) > - support executable jar attributes in manifest plugin (#76) > - several bugfix on > - emma > - cobertura > - junit (#78) > - javadoc (#77) > - xooki / eadoc > > The plugin code has become stable, but you can still expect changes before > the final release. > > Issues should be reported to: http://www.easyant.org/trac/ > > Retrieve sources from the 0.7 release files at: > http://svn.easyant.org/tags/0.7/ > > Or download the 0.7 release files at: http://www.easyant.org/trac/downloads > > Online documentation is now accessible through : http://www.easyant.org/doc/ > > More information can be found on the Easyant website: > http://www.easyant.org/ > > Regards, Jean Louis Boudart > > > -- > Jean Louis Boudart > Independent consultant > Project Lead http://www.easyant.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
