On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With the repository plugin, the use of the parent scope is to 'return' a > variable from a tag in a plugin. The use of the system scope is to access > system properties.
The system properties have always been available so that's not a problem. So in the repository plugin it's used as a means to return a value. You're using it like a method, sort of? > With the plugin plugin, it's used to read a property file into it's own > scope and pass them as a single map back to the parent. What's the parent in this case? > These, or something to replace them are necessary. Yup, no problem. > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ > Work: http://www.multitask.com.au > > > Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2003 05:59:52 AM: > > > Howdy, > > > > The last hiccup I've run into is the jelly scope test in the touchstone > > build. I looked at it and wondered why this is even needed so I looked > > through the plugins and found all sorts of references to setting > > variables with scopes. The following plugins have this attribute: > > > > clover > > javadoc > > junit-report > > plugin > > repository > > > > For anyone who added the use of scopes what exactly is the purpose? I'm > > trying to clarify where things are defined and the exact behaviour of > > contexts. Are these uses for cross-plugin communication? I would really > > like to eliminate the use of scopes all together. > > > > -- > > jvz. > > > > Jason van Zyl > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://tambora.zenplex.org > > > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational > > and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. > > > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
