At 01:36 17/12/00 -0800, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: >I think one of the areas in which the ANT2.0 discussion has been lacking, >is in the area of configurability of the ANT environment. We have spend a >lot of time talking about how to find or add tasks to the system, how to >ser the classpath, etc. But we have really not talked about how to >configure/taylor ANT to a particular users preferences.
yep. There is a few other things no one has mentioned. I think the AntFarm proposal is interesting because it is first design interesting and it could lead us to good patterns other than monolithic build file (that almost every ant project currently uses). >The current mechanism of "ant.properties" file, I do not think is really >usefull since it is based on "magic properties". I have heard over and over >about CSS and XSLT but we really have no clue how any of the proposals >can use such technology. To start with, this transformations would have to be >applied before ANT itself consumes the XML file and producess a Project instance. Right - simple in mymidon because it was designed with this in mind. It just means specifying a different project builder on command line that build from xslt/css/whatever. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
