----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:01 AM Subject: RE: [PATCH] New <case> task
> If we were to follow this line of thought to their last consequences, > We should remove <available> because we should be doing that with scripts. > I see no difference what so ever between setting a property based on the > existance of a file or setting a property based on a value. Hmm.. I think checking the existence of a file and/or resource with java-script could be really hard (taking in acount that ant already handles things like "how should this path be handled on the current OS"). > To me scripting is using a cannon ball to kill a fly. Why do I need to have > BSF installed and learn javascript, or netrexx or some other language AND > download the interpreter for such language just to be able to make decision > based on a value. If *you* will not need it someone else will for sure - there will be always one functionality which is not / can not be handled by a system like ant, for example if you would like to increment build-numbers and/or other things which go in the direction of calculation/comparison. Nico
