> > I'd really like to resist having "gnumake pattern rules and its internal > functions" as a core part of Ant. Much the same way that I don't want > JavaScript or Perl to be part of the core. > > But I would have no problem with a taskdef that implemented or interfaced > to an external language. Such a task could even interact with the "DOM" > for Ant, and thereby interact with other tasks. > > Does this help? > > - Sam Ruby
Yes and thanks. I do agree with the more simplistic core espcially since I found adding the required taskdefs to be quite a simple thing.
