Concatenate scripts in the order they appear in index.html about ant-build-script

[alvincrespo]

Instead of using regex to find the scripts and concatenate them in that order, couldn't we just have the developer put the order they desire within a property inside of project.properties?

Or if that is inconvenient an xml/json file that would be created by the developer to feed into the build script?

[necolas]

Yeah, that is also my preference. Check out #4 too

[dholth]

Yes! Exactly! The developer should specify the script order in an XML file. By sheer luck, they have been doing that for us 95% of the time already. It is called index.html.

Otherwise you are just re-implementing the original bug "my scripts are concatenated in a different order compared to the un-compiled development HTML".

It's not a regex, it's an actual HTML parser. It is not hard. One way to do it is with the short Java program from the original bug: h5bp/html5-boilerplate#956 (comment)

[bumpux]

Nice to have this.

[roblarsen]

State of the union:

Right now, with just Ant, you can just set up your project with a list of files to concatenate. We definitely want to make it easier than that for people who don't want to know anything about Ant, but if you're not scurred, filelist is yer friend. http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/filelist.html This works for CSS files as well. I always like to invite people to hack on the build script for your own projects. This is a perfect place to do so. FWIW, this is what I do on my own project. I just reqrite the build script to point to specific files and it's magic.

For the no-XML camp, since this is a problem I don't actually have I'm not 100% sure how to solve it. I'm pretty sure a resourcelist http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/resources.html#resourcelist would give us the list option in about ten minutes. I will try that shortly. I like the option to add url: resources. Pretty sweet for those of us working with our own CDNs who want the single file. Grab it off the CDN, concatenate and go.

I think the parse-the-html piece would be cool. I'm not going to look at it myself since there's definitely a "good enough" solution for now with the properties file approach, but I'd welcome a robust pull request.

[franciscolourenco]

what's the state of this issue?
is it still necessary to set the order in build.xml?
or is dholth java program already included?

[roblarsen]

closed by the glory of #43