Sure, I just committed the new stuff: we still have single xconf files per block, so you can remove/add them. With the exception that during build time the dependencies are added to these files.
The include features in xconf allows to very simply add or remove a block by just moving files around. I would like to keep this simplicity and avoid by all means to go back to some build-time generation of these files like we have today with xpatch in 2.1.
Ah, now I see your point: removing them works, but adding not as the dependencies are not set then.
Ok, what do you think about providing a separate ant target, that maintains the includes in the xconf files for each block (directly in the src directory)? We already create the blocks.properties files out of gump.xml, so we could inject the include statement there as well.
This would allow add/remove without any problems again - I think I will have some time tomorrow to change this.
Hmm, it is - while doing the changes I found several includes that were already outdated!
There aren't that much inter-block dependencies, and I don't have the feeling hand maintaining them is really complicated.
Carsten
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