Managing a large project that uses ant can get to be annoying (not IDEA annoying, just annoying in general). In order to cut down our my annoyance factor, I've split our ant files up into multiple subproject-like files that build subcomponents of our product. I'd bet most people have done this.
If IDEA could do the following...it would make this sort of organization more appealing. Allow the declaration of a 'master' build.xml file. All the other ant xml files would inherit the properties of this xml file. At a minimum, it would be nice to have the ability to inherit an ant file's properties when a new ant file is added to the ant tool window. An even better solution to the above situation would be to define another file (like a properties file or a shell script) that can be used to define the class path entries and/or properties of an ant script. This would allow me to use the same file for IDEA that I use for our nighly build scripts (which run ant from the command line). Also, maybe the ability to nest ant files inside of other ant files in the ant tool window. Maybe this is taking it too far, but I could see its usefulness. Thanks, -- Rick _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
