Jon Stevens wrote: > > on 12/9/2000 1:47 AM, "David Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here are the taskdef for XMLC (xmlc.enhydra.org). > > Why don't you contribute that to the XMLC project? > > -1 on including yet another optional taskdef that should really be included > with the primary project instead.
Jon, I think that if you are going to -1 a task for an external tool, then you need to back it up with a recommendation for some metric that we can objectively use for determining inclusion/exclusion in Ant. Based on your statement above, one could speculate that you would lobby to remove all optional tasks, and possibly even some things like support for jikes, only because they provide support for tools that are developed outside of Sun or Jakarta. I can't believe that this is really the case with you. Therefore, I think you owe it to the submitter--doubly so since he is new to the group--the courtesy of a more substantiated argument against accepting his submission. Personally, I would love to have an XMLC task in Ant as I use Enhydra on one of my projects, and enhydra has a non-trivial user base. I certainly don't see it as any less worthy than, say, the ejb tasks, or the perforce support. Comments like yours above do very little to serve the longer term interests of the group, and only succeed in driving off potentially highly effective contributors. sim
