James Duncan Davidson wrote: > > There are two reasons for wanting tasklibs and different classloaders: > > (1) You want to have a way to say: this sub-build requires such and such > support > > > > without needing to know it globally, which is required when using > the > > classpath. > > Hmmm. I don't know if we want to scope this sort of thing at the target > level. I think it's a property of the project.
Exactly, a property of the sub-project. My point is that the top level project does not need to know about what extras some sub-project may need. Requiring everything to be in the CLASSPATH means the toplevel (i.e., the thing starting the JVM must know about the requirements of every project and sub-project we may try to build). This looks ugly to me. > > > > > > (2) After we have lots of people contributing lots of stuff, you want to > be able > > to > > isolate the libraries apart to avoid any nasty conflict, except for > the ANT > > core which > > lives in the CLASSPATH, each library can use its own stuff. > > That's a good point. > > > Additionally, having libraries may allow things like the library declaring > its > > own tasks, > > so like core, the action of defining the library declares its tasks > implicitly. > > This is a > > little more of work, but should not be difficult if we use XML :-) > > > > If I ever get some time I'll try to work on it. > > I'm in the process of gathering design notes... I'll spend some time looking > at this in the scope of things and see how it fits together. > > .duncan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jose Alberto Fernandez 500 Oracle Parkway, M/S 9op4 Development Manager Redwood Shores, CA 94065 ORACLE Corp. Phone: (650) 506-8830 Java Products Group Fax: (650) 506-7303 Languages & Obj-Relational Tech Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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