Re: Not adding new properties (Re: [Structurer] custom templates are not found any more...)

[Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org>]

Agree, I will change that.

El lun, 24-10-2005 a las 11:41 +0100, Ross Gardler escribió:
> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> > As well we have a new property:
> > project.theme-dir=${project.resources-dir}/themes
> 
> This is not a comment directly about this new property, but it is this 
> new one (and the many others introduced recently) that prompts this mail.
> 
> Issue for-588 [1] is about creating a new config system. It has been 
> proposed (although not agreed - nor objected to) that we use the 
> locationmap.xml for configuration [2]. Adding more configuration options 
> now only makes this move more difficult in the long term.
> 
> Furthermore, since these particular properties are nothing to do with 
> core, but are for plugins they shouldn't really be in 
> forrest.properties. Now that Tim has enabled plugin provided 
> locationmaps we can use the locationmap for plugin configuration. So the 
> above property would become:
> 
> <match pattern="project.theme-dir">
>    <location src="${project.resources-dir}/themes">
> </match>
> 
> (of course we could have a list of potential values too if we use the 
> select element)
> 
> Its use would become:
> 
> lm:project.themes-dir
> 
> I have been using this approach in the projectInfo plugin and it works 
> well. But we need wider use cases to fully test this out.
> 
> Perhaps the structurer plugin is one place we can do more such 
> experiments to try and spot the potential issues.
> 
> Ross
> 
> [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-588
> [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=112827771411900&w=2
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thorsten

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