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Subject: RE: filesystem resolver for win/mac
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:23:56 -0400
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Thanks to all. I set a default value for root.drive in ivysettings.xml =
and
then override it in the build.xml using:

<property name=3D"root.drive" location=3D"/" />

This appears to be working.

-- tBs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Evans (IT) [mailto:Jeffrey.Evans@morganstanley.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:26 PM
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Re: filesystem resolver for win/mac
>=20
> Yep.=A0 In addition, you can give an Ivy property
> <http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/2.1.0/settings/property.html> in
> the settings file with the same name ("repo.root" in this case) and
> value, but with override=3D"false".  This makes the settings file =
useful
> even outside the context of Ant (within Eclipse/IvyDE, for example),
> but if a value is supplied by Ant, it will take precedence.
>=20
> There is still a slight problem that the value is duplicated between
> the Ant world and Ivy world, but even this can be overcome if you set
> an environment variable giving the value of the repository root, and
> then set repo.root from both Ant and Ivy files based on this
> environment variable (their mechanisms for doing this are slightly
> different, but both work fine).
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Tim Brown <tpbrown@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's exactly what we do here.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Maarten Coene
> <maarten_coene@yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe you can work with variables and specify your pattern as
> > > "${repo.root}/[organisation]/..." in your settings.xml?
> > > In you Ant build.xml, you can give the properrty "repo.root" an
> appropriate
> > > value.
> > >
> > > Maarten
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Troy Self <tself@bbn.com>
> > > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> > > Sent: Mon, April 19, 2010 2:44:21 PM
> > > Subject: filesystem resolver for win/mac
> > >
> > > Is there a path format that allows me to specify a filesystem URL
> that
> > > works
> > > in Windows and MacOS?
> > >
> > > If you put pattern=3D"/mydirectory/ivyrepo" then Ivy complains =
that
> the path
> > > must be absolute. The only way I've been able to do that in =
Windows
> is to
> > > specify pattern=3D"c:/mydirectory/ivyrepo", which then fails on a
> Mac.
> > >
> > > Is there an Ivy property I can reference that is the root drive?
> I'd like
> > > to
> > > use something similar to how ant lets you do this:
> > >
> > > <property name=3D"absolute-path" location=3D"/" />
> > >
> > > Putting "location=3D" tells Ant to substitute an absolute path. =
Can I
> do that
> > > in the ivysettings.xml file somehow?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -- tBs
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >