[EASYANT-7] Loading easyant ivysettings file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jean-Louis Boudart
• Created: 17/Feb/11 20:14
• Updated: 17/Feb/11 21:27
• Resolved: 17/Feb/11 20:18

Description

Easyant uses two ivy instances:

• one for easyant itself to resolve buildtypes / plugins / skeletons
• one for projects to resolve dependencies

Currently, easyant ivy instance can only be configured through easyant-conf.xml

<easyant-config>
        <ivysettings file="${easyant.home}/ivysettings.xml"/>
</easyant-config>

This can make things complex when dealing with multiple ivysettings.xml.
To enhance this i suggest to introduce :

• a user ivysettings.xml (by default ${user.home}/.easyant/easyant-ivysettings.xml but can be configured through a property say user.easyant.ivysettings.file)
• a global ivysettings.xml (by default ${easyant.home}/easyant-ivysettings.xml but still configurable through a property say global.easyant.ivysettings.file)

If no user's ivysettings file is found, we will check the global one, if still not found we will use an easyant-ivysettings.xml shipped inside easyant-core.jar.

As i'm not sure we need to break old way to configure easyant ivy instance (through easyant-conf.xml) i suggest to consider the configured file as a global settings.