On 12/15/00 8:44 AM, "James Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the concept behind Ant should be changed to be a "Task Execution
> Engine", and the concept of Project and Target can be generalized into a
> specific form of a Task.
>
> Project would end up being a class that simply implements the Task interface.
>
> In a similar perspective, Install would also be a class that implements Task.
>
> If you want a general tool, then this is a must.
I disagree. I don't want Ant to be a general tool. I want it to be a Java
based project build tool. That's it. I realize that the patterns exposed,
especially the reflection of XML data to objects in a dynamic fashion, is
pretty flexible in itself and suggests lots of generic ways to do things.
However, I would rather live through a few iterations of playing with the
magic inherent before trying to generalize.
I've generalized things too fast, it's fun for the brain, but makes things
more complicated. Imho.
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James Duncan Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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