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From: steve morin <steve.morin@gmail.com>
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Jan and Peter to answer your questions I have a couple of scenarios
where this could be useful.

1st usage convenience..
A person that often uses a different build file could use a shell
script that calls ant using a different default for convenience.
=09
=09#!/bin/sh
=09ant -df config.xml "$@"

or=20
=09alias cfg=3D"ant -df config.xml"

2nd usage dynamic change of ant task default target.

>>=09Ant
>>=09Description
>>=09
>>=09Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile. This can be used to build
subprojects. This task must not be used outside of a target if it
invokes the same build file it is part of.
>>=09
>>=09When the antfile attribute is omitted, the file "build.xml" in the
supplied directory (dir attribute) is used.

3rd usage dynamic change of subant task calls

>>=09antfile   =09 Build file name, to use in conjunction with
directories.               String         Optional
>>=09Defaults to "build.xml".
>>=09If genericantfile is set, this attribute is ignored.=20


Of the three usages I believe the 1st and 3rd usages have the most
merit.  I believe the 1st could be very beneficial to many people to
speed development.  It's a minor changes and requires little
maintenance but increases flexibility greatly.  Dynamic usage of
subant  would great to simplify ant usage for projects that multiple
preprocess.

--build.xml
 <project name=3D"subant" default=3D"subant1">
        <property name=3D"build.dir" value=3D"subant.build"/>
        <target name=3D"subant1">
            <subant target=3D"" buildpath=3D"${project.dir}>
              <property name=3D"build.dir" value=3D"subant1.build"/>
              <property name=3D"not.overloaded" value=3D"not.overloaded"/>
         =20
            </subant>
        </target>
 </project>

--bashrc
alias doc=3D"and -df docs.xml"
alias gen=3D"ant -df generate.xml"
alias cfg=3D"ant -df config.xml"


cmd: gen -f build.xml
cmd: cfg -f build.xml
cmd: ant



Why doing that?
 ant -f other.xml
would work.

Jan

The patch did not get tru the mailing list.
Open a bugzilla report for the patch.
How would this patch be useful?

Peter
- Hide quoted text -
steve morin wrote:

>This patch allowes people to set the default filename that ant uses if
>none is given and sets ant.file.default to default file name value.
>
>M docs/manual/running.html
>M docs/manual/using.html
>M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java
>M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
>M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java
>
>I would have provided unit tests with this and would appreciate some
>one pointing me in the right direction so I can create them.
>
>
>


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:04:28 +0200, jan.materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de
<jan.materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de> wrote:
> Why doing that?
>   ant -f other.xml
> would work.
>=20
> Jan
>=20
> > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Peter Reilly [mailto:peterreilly@apache.org]
> > Gesendet am: Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 10:50
> > An: Ant Developers List
> > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] set filename of default buildfile
> >
> > The patch did not get tru the mailing list.
> > Open a bugzilla report for the patch.
> > How would this patch be useful?
> >
> > Peter
> > steve morin wrote:
> >
> > >This patch allowes people to set the default filename that
> > ant uses if
> > >none is given and sets ant.file.default to default file name value.
> > >
> > >M docs/manual/running.html
> > >M docs/manual/using.html
> > >M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java
> > >M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
> > >M src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SubAnt.java
> > >
> > >I would have provided unit tests with this and would appreciate some
> > >one pointing me in the right direction so I can create them.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>=20
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