Hi,
some months ago the build.xml was split into different files. Although this should create more maintainability and overview, it's actually imho worse. You have to open different files at the same time, as for example properties are declared in the init.xml and you want to edit a different one. The files are not valid xml files and finally you can't use all these great ant build file editors (e.g. the one integrated in eclipse).
IMO, properties should be declared in a properties file unless you are using that XMLProperties ANT task.
As to including functionality and calling ANT tasks in other XML documents--do not use element includes. ANT has an <import> statement and an <ant call/> setup that can work with targets declared in another ant build file.
The end result is that you can keep modularity without breaking all the wonderful build file editors.
So, I really would like to have one single build.xml again. I think we get the same visibility, but have the advantages mentioned above.
If noone is against this, I will merge them again.
What about properly doing it as stated above?
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