Hi there,
my name is Timo, and I want to become an Ant developer.
My experience with computers, programming, languages and
software developement goes very deep (IMO). A tool like
Ant was *exactly* what I was looking for, and I greatly
appreciate your work.
However, some improvements to Ant could be made:
-(logical) include mechanism. That is, inherit targets from
parent projects and execute them, rather than just inheriting
project properties.
-conditional execution of targets (based on values of properties)
-computed property values (the syntax classpath="${classpath}"
is a good starting point)
-changing the current directory on invoking sub-Ants (for example,
to prevent clobbering of output files given to the Exec task)
-support for additional languages like scheme inside Ant
(could use Kawa, me myself wrote a properly tail recursive,
full call/cc capable scheme compiler [in Java/JavaCC])
-improvements to the DirectoryScanner to fully support regular
expressions
-template processor (that is, automated generation of build.xml files
from
an even higher level of abstraction, automatic detection of module
subdirectories etc.)
-deduction of tasks based on file types (not just .java => .class,
but also .jjt => .jj, .jj => .java, .pizza => .java, and so on)
-perhaps validation of build.xml files
best regards,
Timo
