Antlibs Common

This is a skeleton to make development of Ant Libraries provided by the Apache Ant Project follow the same pattern.

The repository is only mean to be included as git submodule into the actual Antlib. It provides common infrastructure using Apache Ant to build and Apache Ivy for dependency management.

Setting up a new Antlib Project

• Create a new git repository via https://gitbox.apache.org/boxer/
• Clone it locally
• add this git repository as submodule named common to your new repository: git submodule add https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/ant-antlibs-common.git common
• run ant -f common/seed-new-antlib.xml
• this has copied files from common to your root directory: LICENSE, gitignore, .gitattributes, docs/style.css
• it created files NOTICE, build.xml, changes.xml, contributors.xml, version.properties and ivy.xml based on your inputs. You should review its contents.
• if there are any properties you want to override (you most likely will want to change javac.-source and javac.-target) create a build.properties file and add them.
• sources are expected to go to src/main, test sources to src/tests (JUnit tests to src/tests/junit, AntUnit tests to src/tests/antunit).
• if you want to set up a Jenkins build you can copy and adapt the prepare.xml file from common to the root directory of your antlib.
• once you want to publish your antlib, you’ll likely need a project-template.pom like https://github.com/apache/ant-antlibs-compress/blob/master/project-template.pom