Scott, it sounds to me like you have done much of the same thing I have
done.
Ours is a little more structured around the targets that we build but the
basic ideas are similar.
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baldry, Scot M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:28 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: recursive ant build: recommendation?
>
>
> Jim,
>
> We currently use ANT in an environment very similar to one that
> you describe
> in your original email. A team of approx 30 developer each use the tree to
> build invidual projects that are built / tested and migrated independently
> intra-day but are compiled and tested over-night. To achieve this goal I
> have had to do very little work:
>
> 1. I use cascading build.xml files for example:
>
> com.abc.mypackage1
> com.abc.mypackage2
>
> The above package structure contains a total of 4 build.xml files
> under the
> following dirs:
>
> com/build.xml
> com/abc/build.xml
> com/abc/mypackage1/build.xml
> com/abc/mypackage2/build.xml
>
> 2. I have factored out all my common targets to "buildCore.xml"
> that resides
> at the top level. I spent quite some time putting this together but
> basically most developers can now produce a build.xml file for a
> new project
> in ~10 lines of XML!
>
> 3. I have extended the "ant" task so that I can now do things like
>
> <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="abc/mypackage1"
> ifexists="abc/mypackage1/build.xml" />
>
> Let me know if you would like me to explain further,
>
> Scot
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ventimiglia, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 11 June 2001 18:07
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: recursive ant build: recommendation?
>
>
> >I have already seen first hand what happens when a single ANT
> file or even
> a
> >single set of ANT files (all
> >at the top level) are used to handle this kind of interrelated
> projects. It
> >is not pretty, especially when
> >combined with an "exclusive check out" revision control system...
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Can you elaborate on the problems you've had using a single Ant
> build file?
> Thanks
>
> Cheers,
> David
