Mailing-List: contact ivy-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: ivy-user@incubator.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of xavier.hanin@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.146.183 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=beta;
        h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references;
        b=GhnqnsmUZjvcZr1XTWTLLTB8nOcWICjvsf90m6qcXlstipUA1cR7V4/a14RBdTRv+k37yAGCX/Zsw32k2f0V+aLySBjFcpeTa8xCFf9slcmkNL+du3ooQ/vXv16hP3PHeHizz1UnswyxQC4Pkkvcwbt5rPKanHEHcnyzCTvXFoo=
Message-ID: <635a05060706250006h75ca4d6tdda15e8e737ffdcb@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:06:19 +0200
From: "Xavier Hanin" <xavier.hanin@gmail.com>
To: ivy-user@incubator.apache.org, sgoldstein@apache.org
Subject: Re: submodule dependencies
In-Reply-To: <585656.55760.qm@web82813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="----=_Part_138549_1944165.1182755179830"
References: <585656.55760.qm@web82813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

------=_Part_138549_1944165.1182755179830
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

On 6/22/07, Scott Goldstein <sgoldstein@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I have a use case in which a product contains a number of submodules which
> can be used individually.  So, in essence, the submodules are identified by:
>
>   organization/product/revision/submodule
>
>   It doesn't appear that Ivy has such a notion in its depedency resolution
> mechanism.  Am I correct?
>
>   I could replace one of these tokens with the "branch" element, but I
> don't think that this was the intended purpose.
>
>   I suppose another approach, here, would be to write a custom
> DependencyResolver in which for the module, I would specify something like
> "product:submodule" and my resolver would split these up and apply them to a
> pattern.
>
>   Are there any other approaches that would make more sense?


Yes, I think you should better use extra attributes in this case, they are
meant for that and very easy to use. All you have to do is declare a
submodule attribute in your info element of your ivy files, and in your
dependency elements. Then you can use this submodule as a token in your
patterns.

HTH,

Xavier

  Thanks.
>
>   Scott
>


-- 
Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
Manage your dependencies with Ivy!
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/

------=_Part_138549_1944165.1182755179830--