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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org> on 2005/01/13 13:22:24 UTC
[RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
I'm currently thinking about making the build system able to include
blocks from "external" locations, which means blocks that are not
directly in the cocoon directory.
I'm thinking of a simple but working solution: I guess the easiest way
would be to just add the root directory for a block to our gump
descriptor. Currently the build system assumes that a block is located
at src/blocks/BLOCKNAME.
When the build system uses this information from gump.xml, we can simply
include a "local.gump.xml" containing some more projects into the
gump.xml and build an aggregated description that is only used by the
build process. Gump itself is not affected as it still uses the gump.xml.
So my questions are:
- Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a block?
- Does this change have any impact on other parts that I oversee?
Carsten
Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>.
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> ...
>
>> Because in fact our artifacts, that are searched by Gump in the 'work'
>
>
> Rats, I meant 'home' :-/
>
> "The home directory for a project is the directory which contains the
> files referenceable by another project."
>
>> dir, are in the 'build' dir that is nested, IOW found relative to the
>> project 'src' dir (what we would call 'base' dir).
>
>
> something like
>
> $srcdir/$home@nested/build
>
Thanks for the info, Nicola - to be honest I'm still not sure what way
would work. I hoped that our Mr. Gump, Stefano, could help us here?
Anyways, I will try the basedir attribute. After I added it to the
descriptor Gump will finally tell us what it thinks about it.
Carsten
Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>.
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
...
> Because in fact our artifacts, that are searched by Gump in the 'work'
Rats, I meant 'home' :-/
"The home directory for a project is the directory which contains the
files referenceable by another project."
> dir, are in the 'build' dir that is nested, IOW found relative to the
> project 'src' dir (what we would call 'base' dir).
something like
$srcdir/$home@nested/build
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>.
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
>> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>> ...
>>> - Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a
>>> block?
>>
>> http://gump.apache.org/metadata/project.html#home
>
> Yes, I read this and was puzzled as we define the build directory as the
> value for "nested".
Because in fact our artifacts, that are searched by Gump in the 'work'
dir, are in the 'build' dir that is nested, IOW found relative to the
project 'src' dir (what we would call 'base' dir).
>> http://gump.apache.org/metadata/builder.html#Generic+Builder
>> (basedir)
>>
> Hmm, currently this is not defined. Would it break gump builds if we set
> it (as the value then would be different from the default)?
Gump basically does a 'cd' on basedir before starting. If the build is
not made to handle this, yes, it would break. It should not happen if
every project had it's own build.xml. IMHO this is the correct solution.
Another solution is to pass a property to Ant in the <ant> tag in Gump.
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>.
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> ...
>
>> - Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a
>> block?
>
>
> http://gump.apache.org/metadata/project.html#home
Yes, I read this and was puzzled as we define the build directory as the
value for "nested".
>
> http://gump.apache.org/metadata/builder.html#Generic+Builder
> (basedir)
>
Hmm, currently this is not defined. Would it break gump builds if we set
it (as the value then would be different from the default)?
Carsten
Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>.
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
...
> - Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a block?
http://gump.apache.org/metadata/project.html#home
http://gump.apache.org/metadata/builder.html#Generic+Builder
(basedir)
> - Does this change have any impact on other parts that I oversee?
Not AFAIK.
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Geoff Howard <ge...@gmail.com>.
I could swear someone did this about a month ago?
Geoff
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:22:24 +0100, Carsten Ziegeler
<cz...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm currently thinking about making the build system able to include
> blocks from "external" locations, which means blocks that are not
> directly in the cocoon directory.
> I'm thinking of a simple but working solution: I guess the easiest way
> would be to just add the root directory for a block to our gump
> descriptor. Currently the build system assumes that a block is located
> at src/blocks/BLOCKNAME.
> When the build system uses this information from gump.xml, we can simply
> include a "local.gump.xml" containing some more projects into the
> gump.xml and build an aggregated description that is only used by the
> build process. Gump itself is not affected as it still uses the gump.xml.
>
> So my questions are:
> - Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a block?
> - Does this change have any impact on other parts that I oversee?
>
> Carsten
>
Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>.
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> I'm currently thinking about making the build system able to include
> blocks from "external" locations, which means blocks that are not
> directly in the cocoon directory.
> I'm thinking of a simple but working solution: I guess the easiest way
> would be to just add the root directory for a block to our gump
> descriptor. Currently the build system assumes that a block is located
> at src/blocks/BLOCKNAME.
> When the build system uses this information from gump.xml, we can simply
> include a "local.gump.xml" containing some more projects into the
> gump.xml and build an aggregated description that is only used by the
> build process. Gump itself is not affected as it still uses the gump.xml.
>
Ok, I have finished the changes and it seems to work :) You can now
simply add one or more "local.blocks.*.xconf" files to the root
directory containing patches for gump.xml. Each (block) project now has
a src directory with the location of the block. You can point the
location to a directory outside of the cocoon directory and include your
own blocks during the build process.
HTH
Carsten
Re: [RT] Update to build system: location of blocks and gump
Posted by Daniel Fagerstrom <da...@nada.kth.se>.
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> I'm currently thinking about making the build system able to include
> blocks from "external" locations, which means blocks that are not
> directly in the cocoon directory.
Excelent!
> I'm thinking of a simple but working solution: I guess the easiest way
> would be to just add the root directory for a block to our gump
> descriptor. Currently the build system assumes that a block is located
> at src/blocks/BLOCKNAME.
> When the build system uses this information from gump.xml, we can
> simply include a "local.gump.xml" containing some more projects into
> the gump.xml and build an aggregated description that is only used by
> the build process. Gump itself is not affected as it still uses the
> gump.xml.
Sounds reasonable. You might also want to take a look at
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32212, that allow for
declaring external blocks in local.blocks.properties. The patch still
requires changes to gump.xml, so your approach seem more convinient.
> So my questions are:
> - Is there a possibility in gump to define the root directory for a
> block?
> - Does this change have any impact on other parts that I oversee?
Don't know.
/Daniel