Re: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Jesse Glick wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: While I agree that there is some commonality across many Java projects (in that Java has a packaging mechanism that utilizes directories etc. and that these projects commonly produce one or more JAR files) it seems to me that this approach would either

Re: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-21 Thread Jesse Glick
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: While I agree that there is some commonality across many Java projects (in that Java has a packaging mechanism that utilizes directories etc. and that these projects commonly produce one or more JAR files) it seems to me that this approach would either be too restrictive

Re: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-20 Thread Phil Weighill-Smith
> > It seems to me that there are as many completely different ways of > > using Ant as there are projects in this world. If you were to supply a > > "standard" build script, ready for customization, what input file > > structure would it expect? What language would be compiled (if any)? > > What d

Re: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Phil Weighill-Smith wrote: I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but have you considered... It seems to me that there are as many completely different ways of using Ant as there are projects in this world. If you were to supply a "standard" build script, ready for customization, what input fil

RE: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-18 Thread Phil Weighill-Smith
to obtain dependency JARs from other projects Phil :n. -Original Message- From: news on behalf of Nicola Ken Barozzi Sent: Sat 18/12/2004 11:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [RT] Define common project properties and tasks

[RT] Define common project properties and tasks

2004-12-18 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
If Ant defines a name for common project properties, then each task could have a parallel typedef that configures it with these values. In this way, a basic user would only need to write a property file and call the extended tasks without attributes, and have them work correctly OOTB. Same thi