Re: Ant: How to parameterize similar targets?

From: Stefan Bodewig (stefan.bodewig_at_freenet.de)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: 27 Nov 2003 01:17:12 -0800

ronaldf@eml.cc (Ronald Fischer) wrote in message news:<219750c.0311260645.46d2233a@posting.google.com>...
> I'm faced with a bunch of build.xml files in several directories,
> all of them define a certain target (say: T). The definition of
> this target in all these build files are structurally nearly the same.
> Their implementations differ only in small details, say, a different
> value for some filename etc. During one build, all these targets are
> executed by recursive calls of Ant.

Use Ant 1.6beta and <import>.

For some doc examples that go beyond the current documentation inside
the beta distribution see
<http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail/Import>
and
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=106934667616938&w=2>

Stefan

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