From: "Steve Loughran" <steve_l@iseran.com>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <nicolaken@apache.org>
> To: "Ant Users List" <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Cc: "Ant Developers List" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: <import> would be nice
>
>
> > From: "Hal Hildebrand (web)" <Hal.Hildebrand@hellblazer.com>
> >
> > > I would love to have <import>. If nothing else, xml includes really
> > > suck.
> >
> > I second this.
> >
> > Would any committer -1 this (+explanation, please)?
>
> I dont think anyone will; it is after all, one of the ant 2.0 required
> features is to work much better in big multi-file projects. Ant is good in
> that you can do much more in a single file than make, bad in that because
> the need is less, it has done multi-file stuff less well.
>
> xml imports do suck, because they happen too early, you cant go
>
> <import-typedefs srcFile="${project.base}/typedefs.xml"/>
Wow wow, this is a "projectlib" kinda thing, it really gets wanting it even
more :-D
> I dunno if the syntax of hal is right, but the ability to have cross-file
> dependencies is one of the ant2.0 plans.
Now is better ;-)
Any hints on how this can be implemented?
Calling a special ProjectHelper?
It would be tops if it could be done in a task, so that no core changes
would be needed by Ant.
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Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
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