Return-Path: 
 <ivy-user-return-6986-apmail-ant-ivy-user-archive=ant.apache.org@ant.apache.org>
Delivered-To: apmail-ant-ivy-user-archive@www.apache.org
Received: (qmail 55113 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3)
  by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0000
Received: (qmail 46768 invoked by uid 500); 15 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0000
Delivered-To: apmail-ant-ivy-user-archive@ant.apache.org
Received: (qmail 46415 invoked by uid 500); 15 Jul 2010 09:01:57 -0000
Mailing-List: contact ivy-user-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:ivy-user-help@ant.apache.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:ivy-user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org>
List-Post: <mailto:ivy-user@ant.apache.org>
List-Id: <ivy-user.ant.apache.org>
Reply-To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Delivered-To: mailing list ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Received: (qmail 46404 invoked by uid 99); 15 Jul 2010 09:01:56 -0000
Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230)
    by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:01:56 +0000
X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=10.0
	tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL
X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org
Received-SPF: softfail (nike.apache.org: transitioning domain of
 nicolas.lalevee@hibnet.org does not designate 216.86.168.183 as permitted
 sender)
Received: from [216.86.168.183] (HELO mxout-08.mxes.net) (216.86.168.183)
    by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:01:48 +0000
Received: from pc-marianne.anyware (unknown [84.14.163.130])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA061509DB
	for <ivy-user@ant.apache.org>; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas =?utf-8?q?Lalev=C3=A9e?= <nicolas.lalevee@hibnet.org>
To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
Subject: Re: "Portable" Ivy
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:01:11 +0200
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10
References: <AANLkTikUL9IOLs6h1IYjG0EZLp1DG06cIzaRPUvmW4ej@mail.gmail.com>
 <4C3EBF4D.8060806@ritz-bossicard.com>
 <AANLkTinX95ts7wm7pVksNVBCvZ_x-TCaZnJ3EmLAHMOB@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinX95ts7wm7pVksNVBCvZ_x-TCaZnJ3EmLAHMOB@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <201007151101.11985.nicolas.lalevee@hibnet.org>
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org

On Thursday 15 July 2010 10:12:14 Michael Richter wrote:
> On 15 July 2010 15:57, Vladimir Ritz Bossicard
>
> <vladimir@ritz-bossicard.com>wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> >  I can't seem to find some way to
> >
> >> have Ivy use a repository whose location might change from invocation to
> >> invocation.  The problem is that depending on the physical configuration
> >> my
> >> Ivy installation (and attendant repository) might be on a
> >
> > I solved a similar problem by adding placeholders in the ivyconf.xml
> > file:
> >
> > <filesystem name="localrepo" checkmodified="true">
> > <artifact
> > pattern="${localrepo.dir}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/conf/[artifa
> >ct].[ext]" />
> > <artifact
> > pattern="${localrepo.dir}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/lib/[artifac
> >t]-[revision].[ext]" />
> > <artifact
> > pattern="${localrepo.dir}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/lib/[artifac
> >t].[ext]" />
> > </filesystem>
> >
> > with ${localrepo.dir} simply being an Ant property.
>
> The problem here being that the localrepo will change from machine to
> machine as I move the USB stick.

you could use the property ${ivy.settings.dir} which is the absolute path to 
the directory containing the ivysettings file.

In Ant you can also have the directory containg the build.xml file with:
<project name="myproject">
    <dirname property="myproject.dir" file="${ant.file.myproject}" />

Nicolas