At 01:54 22/2/01 +0100, ZACHCIAL,SLAWOMIR (HP-France,ex1) wrote: >Hi, > >Last night I thought I would be great to avoid to start JVM and to parse the >Ant build file each time I want to do a build. I know that there is an >ongoing effort called 'antidote' but I was thinking rather about a command >line tool. > >And that's how Ant Shell (antsh) is born :-)
kewl ;) >I would like to know your thoughts about it. Please try it (attached to this >message) and tell me if the tool like this makes sense, and if yes, what are >the other features that would be useful. I might become the Ant's >interactive mode (ex. ant -interactive). I like it. If it had a command line history it would be fantastic ;) For Ant2.0 we have been discussing (and I have been advocating) a interactive mode (see the myrmidon ant2.0 proposal for example). >If you think antsh is useful I'd love to do a clean implementation and add >all the demanded features. I havent ran the code yet but it definetly looks interested and I for one would be very interested in using something like this ;) 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 | *-----------------------------------------------------*
