--- Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, > > There are no formal rules for deciding what constitutes an optional > task. I think just about anything can be accepted as an optional task at > this point. In the future, when the extension mechanism is in place, I > think the optional tasks may move out of the ant CVS tree. We may then > have a number of task sets, rather than a single big optional.jar. How > we manage contirbuted / optional tasks is something I think needs to be > addressed in the upcoming Ant 2.0 discussion. >
This may have already been discussed before, but it would be really neat if Ant supported extensions in a similar manner that jEdit supports plug-ins (with maybe some help from Antidote); there is a defined JAR file format for the optional tasks, and a server that the user can browse with a GUI and/or console based tool for installing the extensions/plug-ins. Just a feature point for the 2.0 discussion. sim ===== Mustard Seed Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
