Deryk, Julian, thanks for your input.
Actually you've come a little late for the deadline so anything you've
suggested has to go into the controversal area even if it wasn't.
But as far as I can tell, most stuff would belong there anyway.
Deryk Sinotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Summary
>
> - Fundamental design changes to make Ant more powerful:
> 1) Scoping is definitely the biggest problem I can see.
already on the list
> 2) Targets need to be considered more as "methods".
added
> 3) Flow control is the second biggest problem after scoping.
already on the list
> 4) Data types need to be more powerful.
already on the list - scattered in several separate requests.
> 5) XInclude needs to be implemented.
already on the list
> 6) Class-level dependency checking.
The optional <depend> task?
> 7) The Ant documentation needs to be better.
already on the list (voluteers welcome)
> 8) Nested elements...
already on the list
> More standard tasks
> -------------------
> - abort
<fail />?
> System.exit if condition true.
No - System.exit is a no-no. Throwing an exception that calling code
can deal with is cleaner.
> - canonical
> <canonical name="thisfile" value="${ant.file}" />
<property name="thisfile" location="..." />?
> - xslt
<style />?
Stefan
