OK, searching the archives for the keyword 'delcarative' bears out the fact that this has not been *much* on the agenda. However, it has been on the agenda - I distinctly remember an expression of concern from somebody attempting to do just this, and that is what really what raised the importance of the whole procedural vs. declarative issue in my mind.
Making the build language suitable for parallelizing task execution is a significant design goal, IMHO. Easy-to-understand and low-maintenance are also significant goals for the build language. Of these, low-maintenance is probably the more important one, assuming that build-file editors like Antidote become more available. I think 'not precluding distributed ant' should be on the agenda for the Ant2 discussion. regards, David. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > From: David Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tim Vernum wrote: > > > > > I'd like to see list/set based operations. But I like them because > > > they're a fairly clean, simple, and powerful way of supporting > > > iteration, not because they're declarative. > > > > > > > Point taken. :-) > > > > The request for 'declarative' comes from people who wish to > > attempt to parallelise execution of Ant tasks in a > > distributed ( multi-machine / multi-OS ) fashion. > > > > This is not the case at all. I have never heard anybody given that argument. > David Bullock LISAsoft Project Lead Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: +61 4 0290 1228 "The key ingredients of success are a crystal-clear goal, a realistic attack plan to achieve that goal, and consistent, daily action to reach that goal." Steve Maguire, "Debugging the Development Process". LISAsoft http://www.lisasoft.com/ Adelaide Sydney -------------------- ------------------------ 38 Greenhill Rd Level 3, 228 Pitt Street Wayville S.A. 5034 Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Australia PH +61 8 8272 1555 PH +61 2 9283 0877 FAX +61 8 8271 1199 FAX +61 2 9283 0866 -------------------- ------------------------
