----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Gerhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The Ant 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. This is actually one of the nice side effects of forcing everyone to extend ant through ant tasks, rather than in-line code: it is much more likely that the resultant code will be reusable, so the base ant toolkit becomes richer over time. in-line scripting may tend to result in one off code which is hard to re-use in your own projects, let alone across the java dev community. > 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. I think the ant extension approach will help here; it will be much easier to drop in new tasks ; we just now need a [CVS managed] place for all the sumbitted tasks to go, even the ones that arent as formally supported as taskdefs.optional As a case in point I am partway through coding up a CSC task to build C# code from inside ant. I suspect that many people would (perhaps quite rightly) feel that that should not be part of the official optional task list on the basis it aids and abets the complete antithesis of the Java world. But shouldt stop that those of us doing .net work dont to use ant, and the appropriate tasks to make it possible. -Steve
