> - We need to agree on a way to except optional taskdefs like the recent > xslt task. > > I propose we place them in a org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional > package. We really need to keep everything together in one place. > Thoughts? I would really like to get this straightened out.
Yes, I agree it would be nice to have an optional set of tasks that can ship with a full Ant distro that people can use at will. However, I'd also like to solve the problem of making it easier to pick up taskdefs that people might create on the fly. > - We need to provide additional information to Taskdefs by enhancing the > interface to include a > > public void setExtendedParameters( DocumentFragment df ); Why are you exposing XML doc frags within the internal APIs? Once the XML build file is read, we're not in XML land anymore. I'd like to keep it that way and just leave XML as the disk based data format. .duncan
