Jan:
Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, I know I can unzip or unjar...
Really, this isn't functionality I need per say... I had been thinking
of a way to package up my build environment for others to use in
conjunction with Ivy... As my environment contains a number of reusable
things - such as XML files containing macrodefs - I was hoping to
package it all up into something like a jar file...
I am still learning Ivy so maybe there is a way to use it for all my
files...
Perhaps, with regards to <import> an additional attribute could be
defined? For instance:
<import resource = "/some/dir/to/jarfile/somejar.jar" path =
"/foo/bar/build.xml"/>
Where the resource attribute specifies a path to the jar file and path
represents the path within the jar file? Just a thought...
Anyway - I don't specifically need this kind of functionality, I just
thought it'd be neat if there was a way to do it :)
Thanks again!
Scot
Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
> We thought about extending <import> to get a resource (JAR, URL, ...), but there
is one "problem": a project must have a basedir from where you could do calculate all the
paths. Not really easy - if possible. What is "/"?
>
> So you cant use the bunch of buildfiles from an archive.
>
> But you can extract these files ...
> And (I tested this) you can do this in your main buildfile:
>
>
> imported-buildfiles.zip contains only b.xml:
> <project name="B">
> <echo>${ant.project.name}</echo>
>
> <target name="imported">
> <echo>imported</echo>
> </target>
> </project>
>
>
>
> build.xml is:
> <project>
> <unzip src="imported-buildfiles.zip" dest="."/>
> <import file="b.xml"/>
> </project>
>
>
>
> $dir
> 14.09.2007 08:44 102 build.xml
> 14.09.2007 08:42 192 imported-buildfiles.zip
>
> $ant -p
> Buildfile: build.xml
> [unzip] Expanding: C:\TEMP\ant-test\imported-buildfiles.zip into C:\TEMP\ant-test
> [echo] ${ant.project.name}
>
> Main targets:
>
> Other targets:
>
> B.imported
> imported
>
>
>
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Scot P. Floess [mailto:floess@mindspring.com]
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. September 2007 19:04
>> An: Ant Users List
>> Betreff: Import build files from a jar?
>>
>> I was wondering if its possible to import build files from a Jar file?
>>
>> For instance, lets "assume" I wrote a bunch of re-usable Ant scripts,
>> placed them in a zip/jar file and wanted to import a build.xml
>>
> >from said
>
>> zip/jar file... The import task doesn't seem to work this way... Is
>> there something else I can use or is this type of functionality not
>> supported?
>>
>> --
>> Scot P. Floess
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>> Louisburg, NC 27549
>>
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Scot P. Floess
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Louisburg, NC 27549
252-478-8087 (Home)
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