At 08:29 6/11/00 -0800, you wrote: >Personally I think that all of you who are against this behavior are >crazy. I would be insane too if I had to specify the location of my build >file every time too... so I guess I can understand that a little.
Well you can easily wrap your call to ant in a script to do just that (I currently wrap mine in my editors scripting language elisp ;]) and there is a few platform independent approaches (perl/python/tcl/rexx I guess are examples). >I am fine with backing out this change, though I think that it would be >better to make it optional and not the default action. There isn't any >reason why a build system can not be easy to use and simple at the same >time. right. >I have pretty much given up on helping this effort due to the ultra-purist >nature of the developers. I tend to consider myself a purist, but you guys >take the cake. Though I would rather help add useful features to an >open source project, rather than making private modifications, it seems >clear that this group is dedicated to producing a system for different user >needs. The group is basically aimed at simple cross platform build process. There are plenty of tools available if you want to do complex scripting (*make/javamake/jmk/jam etc). And I do think there is some room to add complexity to ant while still retaining readability but it has to be done carefully. Ironically you responded to Diane who is a strong advocate for extending ant beyond the simple system and adding a lot of features ;) >Perhaps once there is a simple and powerful way to add features to Ant >(with-out having to maintain a private version) then developers can be free >to include/exclude the functionality that there environment demands. I am working towards a system like this on a private fork and if successful could be an option ;) but I still think the ant project should not fork too much different versions. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
