You might want to read this posting by Dominique Devienne : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=103720339010709&w=2
The <antcall> and <ant> core tasks are also helpful when you have subprojects or repetitive tasks which you are doing for a number of subprojects. Yours ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica P. Hekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 4:11 PM Subject: Build file inclusion > I'm trying to find out if there's any way for an ant build file to include > another build file. I'm envisioning a task like > > <include buildfile="../projectA/build.xml"/> > > Then the buildfile for projectB (which is the one which would include the > above line) would be able to re-define tasks which had been previously > defined in the projectA buildfile, hence overriding them. > > My situation is this: projectA, in my case, is a set of classes and > property files and a build file. projectB is an instance of a projectA > project. It is very similar to projectA, but needs to have some > modifications in its build file. As things stand, every time projectA's > build file is changed, we have to manually merge the two build files. It > would be great if there were a way for projectB's build file to just refer > to projectA's build file. I've pored over the online ant documentation, > and can't see a way to do this. > > One thing that I thought of was that, during projectB's build process, we > could run a script to create a build file by merging projectA's build file > with a file which contained projectB's modifications. That seems clumsy > and subject to lots of problems, though. > > I hope that's clear. And I hope you guys have a good solution for me. > > Thanks, > Jessica > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
