At 08:50 6/12/00 -0500, you wrote: >Is there a doc somewhere that discusses what Anteater is expected to become?
there is spec/core.html thou mainly it is what has been discussed on list and thus the only real place to find it is in list archives or ask us ;) >This is the first post I've seen (short time on list), and it seems that it is a >revolution/evolution of the current Ant product (1.2). One of two. There is proposal/myrmidon and proposal/anteater. Both of them are potential revolution/evolutions. >I'm currently working on >Ant integration, and it seems like Anteater will have a greater emphasis on a >two-way core manipulation than the current product does, therefore minimizing >integration difficulties. A little. AntEater as I currently see it doesn't offer any direct support for different hosting environments and radical dynamicism - which is I guess what you are asking about. You may want to check out myrmidon as it was originally developed as a engine hosted in another environment. Consequently it is very easy to interact with the task/target/project engine. The framework it is based on (Avalon @ java.apache.org/framework) emphasizes this. >But...will Anteater support current build scripts, It should .. or at worst there will be an xslt sheet that will automagically transform from old scripts to new scripts. >and what is a realistic timeframe for a workable beta and release. Depends on what the community wants and how radical they want to be. I would hazard to guess that it would be a usable beta by end of march and released sometime after that. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
