How to make generic rules

[Cyril BERION <cb...@free.fr>]

Hello ant users,

I'm an old makefile user. Now i'm an ant user.
But i haven't yet found a way to replace a powerfull functionality of make: implicit rules and import of rule from a makefile in another makefile (include).
In fact i need to overide some task in order to define implicit properties.

For example i want to set the compress attribute of jar task to false one time for the full build file and not to set it for each jar task.

How can i do this?

Thx.

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Re: How to make generic rules

[Antoine Levy-Lambert <an...@antbuild.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyril BERION" <cb...@free.fr>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:19 PM


> Hello ant users,
>
> I'm an old makefile user. Now i'm an ant user.
> But i haven't yet found a way to replace a powerfull functionality of
make: implicit rules and import of rule from a makefile in another makefile
(include).

ant 1.6alpha has <import/> which is like include

> In fact i need to overide some task in order to define implicit
properties.
>
> For example i want to set the compress attribute of jar task to false one
time for the full build file and not to set it for each jar task.
>
> How can i do this?
>

Use properties
<jar ... compress="${compress.setting}"/>

With ant1.5.3 you can make yourself a generic jar target which you can
invoke with antcall, passing parameters.

Cheers,

Antoine



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A different CVS situation

[Matt <ma...@hotmail.com>]

Hi Folks,

I have a CVS question which I think might be a little weird. I am using
Ant to make new versions and import stuff to my CVS repository.

Now my boss wants to make a functionality which people could use to
transfer projects from one CVS repository to another. Like from dev
repository to deploy repository.

Has anyone ever attempted that kind of stuff or you guys think that this
is even do-able with Ant. We don't need to checkout the projects. The
users should be able to see what projects exists in a repository in some
kinda GUI and select a project and be able to transfer that to another
repository with click of a button.

I have made a GUI to supplement Ant that allows user to chose import
project to multiple repository locations in one pass. But transferring
directly from one repository to another directly, I don't know abt that
? Is the idea worth pursuing ?

I would appreciate any comments or ideas ? 

Matt




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