ivy buildlist task

[Shawn Castrianni <Sh...@halliburton.com>]

I am trying to programmatically build up a list of build.xml files to pass into the ivy:buildlist task.  My problem is that since this is generated dynamically, I don't know how to create a dynamically generated fileset to pass to the buildlist command.  If all build.xml files had a common parent directory, then I could create an includes property dynamically and then specify a single fileset with the common parent directory and the dynamically generated includes property.  However, I can't guarantee that all build.xml files will have a common parent directory.  I would normally accomplish this with multiple filesets, but that cannot be done dynamically.  Therefore, the only thing I can think of is to enhance the buildlist command and allow a path to be specified along with a fileset.  A path can dynamically be generated since a path can be appended to using the refid AND a path does not enforce a single common parent directory for all build.xml files.

Any ideas?

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Shawn Castrianni

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RE: ivy buildlist task

[Shawn Castrianni <Sh...@halliburton.com>]

I think I have just realized that buildlist does not work properly unless you have ALL modules available for it to parse.  Otherwise, buildlist should be a post resolve task since resolution information would be the only way to get such information between non-direct dependencies.

In other words, if I have a 200 module system, and I give buildlist 5 module descriptors at random, buildlist will fail to give me the proper order unless all 5 modules are directly dependent on each other.  Am I correct??  Will I have to parse the cache myself?

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Shawn Castrianni

From: Shawn Castrianni
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 5:30 PM
To: 'ivy-user@ant.apache.org'
Subject: ivy buildlist task

I am trying to programmatically build up a list of build.xml files to pass into the ivy:buildlist task.  My problem is that since this is generated dynamically, I don't know how to create a dynamically generated fileset to pass to the buildlist command.  If all build.xml files had a common parent directory, then I could create an includes property dynamically and then specify a single fileset with the common parent directory and the dynamically generated includes property.  However, I can't guarantee that all build.xml files will have a common parent directory.  I would normally accomplish this with multiple filesets, but that cannot be done dynamically.  Therefore, the only thing I can think of is to enhance the buildlist command and allow a path to be specified along with a fileset.  A path can dynamically be generated since a path can be appended to using the refid AND a path does not enforce a single common parent directory for all build.xml files.

Any ideas?

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Shawn Castrianni

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