Sounds very good! I may missed - that are you able to extract the
dependencies from the plugin.xml without hacking ant?
May you can use a xpath to extract this values, but this is just a
idea...
Cheers,
Stefan
Am 16.02.2006 um 10:54 schrieb Jérôme Charron:
Yes, there is an easier way. Implement a custom task to which you'll
pass a path to plugin.xml and a name for a path.
Finaly, the more I look at the ant code for plugins the more I
think we must
redesign it.
In the actual ant scripts, each plugin is a ant project, so there
is no way
to define ant dependencies between plugins.
(=> if you compile a plugin A that depends on another one (B), you
must
manually compile B before compiling A => we loose one of the major ant
benefit)
I suggest to define each plugin as a target, so that we can define
someting
like:
<target name="protocol-httpclient" depend="lib-http,lib-commons-
httpclient">
and then automatically extracts dependencies from plugin.xml with
something
like:
<xmlproperty file="plugin.xml"/>
<target name="protocol-httpclient" depend="${plugin.requires.import
(plugin)}">
....
</target>
Any comment is welcome.
Jérôme
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