I've fixed IVY-297 with the changes suggested for allownomd and skipbuildwithoutivy. I've also opened IVY-789 to support descriptor as a more generic name for module descriptor patterns in resolvers configuration.
Xavier On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Maarten Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the enumeration syntax, like descriptor="required | otpional", it's > much more readable and it will probably allow us to have less attributes on > some of the tasks. > > Maarten > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:09:23 AM > Subject: Re: Fixing some naming inconsistencies in Ivy > > Just pinging about this e-mail, I've had no answer so far, I think I can't > make the choice alone, and we need to deal with that question before > 2.0final to close IVY-297. So, anyone has an opinion about this: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > As reported by IVY-297, Ivy suffers from some name inconsistencies and > > strange attribute names. Ivy 2.0 is a good opportunity to fix some of > > them, since I think we can afford some more deprecation warnings. > > > > So I'd like to fix IVY-297 by marking allownomd as deprecated, and > > providing a descriptor="required | optional" attribute. > > > > To go further, we could rename the attribute skipbuildwithoutivy in > > buildlist in skipbuildwithoutdescriptor, or even better change it to > > buildwithoutdescriptor="skip | fail | warn | tail | head", which wold > make > > it both more readable and more powerful. > > > > Another area where the name 'ivy' is used to talk about module > descriptors > > in general is patterns. This lead to some strange settings, where you > give > > an 'ivy' pattern to tell where the poms are. In this case I think we > could > > support both 'ivy' and 'descriptor' (for resolver patterns for > instance), > > since the use case for ivy files is still predominant, so I don't think > > deprecating the old name would really be better. > > > > So, what do you think about these changes? > > > > Xavier > > > > > -- > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant > http://xhab.blogspot.com/ > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ > http://www.xoocode.org/ > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
