Re: Extending ant from within ant

[Patrick Beard]

At 3:50 PM +1000 8/1/00, Peter Donald wrote:
At 10:43  31/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
 >Another idea I'd like to explore is using Rhino JavaScript (big
surprise) to provide scripting within a build.xml file. We could then
define additional tasks dynamically in terms of scripts. Much of the
currently built-in tasks could be recast in terms of scripts, where
appropriate.
actually that is already possible. The BSF is used in script task to offer
said functionality.
Great. I've been trying to obtain BSF, but see no way to download all 
of the source at once! The current web pages at

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bsf/
don't describe how to access the repository directly from CVS.
Looking forward to using BSF.
- Patrick
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