Phillip Lord wrote: [...]
I'm still not sure. Centipede looks nice, and might do some of what I:-)
want, but its looks a lot more complex. I had a look through the wiki,
but I couldn't find anything concrete describing what "the embed
proposal" that you refer to, actually does.
With my system, you just take the defined build file, and just
override the bits you don't like. All the rest comes for free. I can
still use my XML aware editor to do correct tag placement, as the
individual project build files are just ant files, and most, although
not all of the code duplication between projects that I have had in
the past with ant disappears. And it works with any build file,
including third party ones over which I have no control, which is
useful for me.
I'm not trying to convince you here. I wrote antmerge, because I
needed something like it. My solution is cheap and cheerful. The code
base is fairly small. And it mostly works. If people want to use it
they are welcome to it, and if they don't, then this is fine also. If
there is alternative which is better, then I'd like to know, because
if I can spend less time doing my build, and more time developing the
"end product", well thats good for me.
I'm trying to "sell" you the embed proposal because there is a >0 possibility that it will go in the Ant codebase. Part of it is being moved-intergrated in these days.
I'm just trying to understand id AntMerge does something new I might be interested in for Centipede, and possibly work together.
Here is how you can simply "override" as you say using the embed proposal or Centipede:
you make a file called mybuild.xml and you can override it in build.xml:
<project name="mainbuild" default="all" basedir=".">
<import file="mybuild.xml"/>
<!-- all targets define here override the ones
in mybuild.xml -->
<!-- The ones not overridden are available -->
<!-- You can all the parent target with
parentbuildname.target (IIRC) -->
</project>
Is this what AntMerge does?
You can also import more than one file too.
Centipede goes further and adds an <importcent> task that can automatically download the buildfile to use with all its resources and install it locally in the cent plugin repository.
But this is an extra feature that you peobably don't need ATM, the embed proposal will suffice. I showed you centipede because it's a prepackaged version of Ant with the embed proposal and extra targets. If you install it you can run both Ant buildfiles via embed or centipede ones, which simply have a different default name to prevent clashes in case other users don't have Centipede.
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