[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: New Build - Restate requirements

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First some history.

The initial jbossbuild worked by having three different models.

1) The top level build model that defined all artifacts, these are the
build/component/artifact elements
2) The component build model that defined how those artifacts were constructed
componentdef/artifactdef/sourcedef
3) The tasks.xml that defined the artifact types and the macros that provide
foreach type behaviour on the model above

Assumptions:
1) The top level build information was shared by all the components and defined
common/consistent properties. It also defined the release structure
2) The top level/component level model could be combined where you just had one
project
3) Components were treated equivalently whether they were binary or source
the only difference being whether an artifact's location was resolved to
thirdparty/component or the ROOT/component/output
4) The build should be as declarative as possible, potentially allowing custom tasks
to other build scripts to mine the build structure to provide other behaviour,
e.g. cruisecontrol

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