[VELOCITY-440] Make TEMPLATE_ROOT behave more like classpath...that is a list of directories to search.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Build
• Environment: WindowsXP
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Colbert Philippe
• Created: 26/May/06 19:10
• Updated: 08/Mar/07 00:16
• Resolved: 27/May/06 00:09

Description

I want to use Velocity as a standard preprocessor for many programming languages or configuration files. By using it this way, I can build a library of Velocity macros that I can callup whenever I want. I want to be able to have macros located in different directories. So the TEMPLATE_ROOT should be a list of directories that is searched by Velocity to find the first macro file needed.

There also a need to have some macros archived in the Jar. So a unified solution for having macros dispersed in a list of directories and insided the JAR file (in the real classpath).

This would go a long way to improve Velocity.