I'm going to state my requirements based on current needs. Invocation ========
-I want to be able to use some of the foundational bits of ant in my own code without having to jump through too many hoops. For example I am spawning exes servlet side right now, re-using the exec watchdog, but I left the rest of exec out as it seemed to have too many assumptions about its execution context => Base services should be defined: execution, spawning with new classpaths, touch, (others?), and implemented with no assumptions about running inside an ant project This ties in to past discussions about decoupling the logging calls and Class.forName() from tasks/projects, perhaps with a TaskExecutionHelper class which hides things. - I want to be able to use higher level tasks from within my own app, by actually creating the XML and just handing it off. This isnt for user viewing at all, just that ant xml makes a reasonable declaration of some delegated code, and doing it that way decouples me from implementation changes. => Entry points which are fully self contained and designed for invocation by other programs. - A repository of IDE integration code: emacs, jedit, everything else. This can be a list of links. Task extras ========= - I need socksified FTP, telnet and even SCP/SSH tasks so I can deploy properly. Right now I am doing this via a unix box controlled by the telnet task. ugly. - A 'reachable' task that checks to see a site is reachable (via GET) and sets a property if it is. Then I can have <reachable name="reachable.server4" url="http://server4.example.com:8080/";> <target "deploy-to-unreliable-server" if="reachable.server4" > <scp ... /> <ssh ... /> </target> (this isnt hard, just a variant of get. I'd do it if I had some free time) - More example base tasks with documentation. Really we should define the recommended core foundation tasks which people should derive of (with some guarantee of future stability). Subclassing off other tasks should be discouraged on the grounds of stability. Site extras ======== - antidote to be able to do update checks and gets of the core libraries, like jedit - A repository of obscure posted tasks other than the mail list. And I want the contributors to maintain them! And want to be able to submit changes too. This goes for tasks under GPL. -tutorials and simple ant files for beginners. 'the 10 line build file to compile your java app'; the 15 line file to build and jar it, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
