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Chi Lang commented on IVY-742:
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This look great. Any reason why <publications> is not included in the inheritance ? 
>From my experience, it is as repetitive as <configurations>, e.g. most module will have standard jar, javadoc, source artifacts.


> Support ivy.xml parent mechanism
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IVY-742
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-742
>             Project: Ivy
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: Neil Lott
>            Assignee: Maarten Coene
>             Fix For: 2.2.0-RC1
>
>         Attachments: extendsIvyFile-ivy-r709181.patch, extendsIvyFile-ivy-r920176.patch
>
>
> Here's the email that details this feature:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Neil Lott <neilmatthewlott@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> Let's say I have multiple modules each with their own ivy.xml
> <ivy-module version="2.0">
>    <info organisation="${organization.name}" module="$
> {interface.jar.prefix}"/>
>    <configurations>
>        <conf name="interface"  description="dependencies for
> interface"/>
>        <include file="path/to/included-configurations.xml"/>
>    </configurations>
>    <publications>
>        <artifact name="${interface.jar.prefix}" type="jar"
> conf="interface" ext="jar"/>
>    </publications>
>    <dependencies>
>           <dependency org="twc" name="mas-core" rev="${mas.version}"
> conf="interface->server"/>
>    </dependencies>
> </ivy-module>
> and I want them all to share an inherited configuration found in a
> file: included-configurations.xml
> <configuration>
>    <conf name="test"/>
> </configuration>
> <dependencies>
>   <dependency name="testng" rev="5.7" conf="test"/>
> </dependencies>
> so in the inherited configurations file I'd also like to include a
> dependency that goes along with that configuration.
> Is something like this possible?
> No, this is not possible in Ivy, but you can use text or xml processing
> tools to recompose your Ivy file before asking Ivy to resolve the
> dependencies of your module.
> Alternatively, since what you ask is close to maven 2 parent mechanism, I
> think it could be a nice addition to Ivy feature set. So feel free to open
> an issue, and even provide a patch :-)
> Xavier
> Thanks,
> Neil
> -- 
> Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
> http://xhab.blogspot.com/
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
> http://www.xoocode.org/

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