[IVY-1097] configuration groups

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-RC2
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Xavier Hanin
• Reporter: Xavier Hanin
• Created: 28/Jun/09 12:42
• Updated: 30/Jun/09 22:55
• Resolved: 28/Jun/09 13:02

Description

In modules having a lot of configurations, sometimes it would be nice to be able to define a group of configurations based on their attributes (including extra attributes). The proposed syntax is *[att=value]

For instance, one could define an extra attribute named 'axis' on the configuration, and then refer to all configurations where 'axis' is 'platform' with *[axis=platform].

Here is an example of Ivy file using this notation:

<ivy-module version="1.0" xmlns:e="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/extra">
	<info organisation="org5"
	       module="mod5.1"
	       revision="4.5"
	       status="integration"
	       publication="20090501110000"
	/>
	<configurations>
		<conf name="A" />
		<conf name="B" />
		
		<conf name="windows" e:axis="platform" />
		<conf name="linux" e:axis="platform"/>
	</configurations>
	<publications>
		<artifact name="art51A" type="jar" conf="A,*[axis=platform]"/>
		<artifact name="art51B" type="jar" conf="B,*[axis=platform]"/>
		<artifact name="art51B" type="dll" conf="B,windows"/>
		<artifact name="art51B" type="so" conf="B,linux"/>
	</publications>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency org="org1" name="mod1.2" rev="2.0" conf="B,*[axis=platform]->default"/>
	</dependencies>
</ivy-module>

In this ivy file, *[axis=platform] is equivalent to windows,linux