----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Huth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: The RIGHT Direction for ANT (was Re: Problem using script task)
> > But this really gets to the heart of why you can't see my point. When > you're in the forest one tree may look a lot bigger than another, but > when you're at 20,000 feet they're all just a bunch of toothpicks. > Well, maybe you are preaching only to the huge mondo corporations with a bizillion lines of outdated legacy code to be maintained. That's not my situation. Your whole argument assumes that there should be an automated way for a program to guess how to build just about anything, a priori. Not very realistic. So, if I have a directory with a bunch of source files, I suppose you are saying it should just be a cake-walk to have an automated process that will go through the directory, and based on file types, etc., just make standardized, rigid, decisions about how each source file should be dealt with, without actually inspecting the source files, etc. This is not my world, and I don't need anything other than, precisely, Ant with just a few, minor extensions to make it more workable, especially in the area of templating. My understanding is that Ant 2.0 is supposed to do a lot of the things I am requesting, although I haven't heard or seen the specifics of Ant 2.0 yet, or any projected release date. In fact, it seems like everyone is still arguing about it and pointing fingers, so it may still take a while. Jason
