Jon Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why are people submitting every task under the Sun to be included > with Ant?
Because they want to use every tool under the sun with Ant and they don't have any influence on their tool developers. Not sure whether POET would care about their developers that want to use Ant for example - but if one of them steps up and offers an open source solution to his fellow developers I won't be the one to reject him. > I just don't get it. Why are we bloating Ant like this? This is an intermediate step. Ant has become that successful that people are going wild and add tasks for everything. This is great. If they are involved in an open source project and their tasks are tightly coupled to that project they can easily include these tasks in the given project - that's what you do and that's what the jBoss people do for example. Then there are task for third party tools that barely ship as a project at all - including tasks there would be rather difficult. For example I have two tasks for JLex and CUP cooking on my box - JLex's distribution consists of a single source file. Ant's current architecture is not well suited for adding a bunch of tasks you need with all your projects - that's what we've realized months ago and that's what we want to change with the Ant2 architecture. Once Ant2 is there, I'd expect it to include a bare minimum of tasks, my vote would go for "if you don't need it to build an Ant distribution, it's not core". We should have a central repository of tasks, maybe as a new project at jakarta, and move the remainder of tasks over there. Until then I have no problem with including these tasks (and bloating Ant if you want to call it that) . Stefan
