Ken -
I'm going to have to agree with you on this.
One of the compelling reasons in using Ant is it's straight forward approach to
executing the task of *building* java based projects.
The standardized tasks that are available in Ant can be used to perform about
80% of the jobs out there. The remaining 20% of the necessary tasks can be
performed via the custom tasks.
The Any User Community is rather large and I am sure there are a lot of
customized tasks out there that could be used in those cases where a custom
task is required.
Maybe the road to travel would be towards formulating a repository of these
tasks instead of marching down Script Alley, of even going to Lisp-ville or
becoming a Xalan-ite.
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