I need help with project concept

[Res Pons <po...@hotmail.com>]

Sorry to post across the userlists.

I'm using Subversion, Ant, and Anthill OS to automate my projects.  We 
release many products in different projects.

Currently I have set up a property sheet in Anthill for each project's 
build.xml and everything works fine.  However, many of the projects create a 
.jar file which is used or needed by other projects.  I tell my build.xml 
file in each project where to get the compiled jar files.

With so many jar files being copied all over and our projects growing larger 
and larger daily, I was asked to create my own top parallel project and call 
all the build files from my master proj and make this project the exchange 
folder for all the jar files or any other artifact.  It's a cleaner way, of 
course and more contained but it entails more work on my part.

I've got my master build file to work, running at the cmnd prompt, however, 
Anthill does not like it when you tell a build file to check out other top 
level project files from the repo.  Should I create dummy project files in 
Anthill just to check out the other projects and then let my build file take 
control?

Somebody please give me guidance on the big picture.  Is this a good idea to 
have a master and separate build project aware of all the other projects and 
but the other projects not being aware of it? How do I bypass the Anthill's 
shortcoming? By switching to CruiseControl?  Are there or do you have any 
examples I could see please?

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