[ACCEPTED] means, the goal/idea is fine, not that a decission on a
particular implementation has been made.
The [ACCEPTED] items
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* The ability for GUI/IDE tools to integrate easily with object model
* support for numerous frontends - from command line over GUI to servlets
* Fully interpreted at runtime.
* provide utility classes to aid in building tasks.
* make ant-call a low cost operations
* allow facilities to build projects from multiple sources.
* move to a system that allows docs to be generated - doc snippets
should be included with the tasks they document.
* allow tasks to be loaded from jars. tasks should be indicated by
either xml file in TSK-INF/taskdefs.xml or manifest file.
* allow documentation to be stored in .tsk jars
* make separate build files easy (ala AntFarm) and importing different
projects a breeze
* provide support for user defined task configurations - i.e. give
users the ability to specify a default value for attributes (always
use debug="true" in <javac> unless something else has been
specified).
* support more control over the properties that are going to be passed
to subprojects (modules)
* Task to prompt for user input.
* Add cvs login feature.
* Easier installation process. GUI - maybe webstart from the homepage.
* Logo for Ant.
* detach Ant from System.err/.in/.out.
* build files should be declarative in nature
Needs further discussion and a final vote
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* better scripting/notification support so the hooks are available to
send notifications at certain times.
[will need more discussion because of vote by Peter Donald and
Simeon Fitch]
* separate tasks into .tsk jars somehow. (Probably via function - ie
java tasks, file tasks, ejb tasks).
[will need more discussion because of vote by Conor MacNeill]
* Ask for a new CVS module for Ant tasks.
[will need more discussion because of vote by Conor MacNeill]
* It should be possible to modify details of the actual build (e.g. classpath,
used compiler) without the need to change the build specification.
[will need more discussion because of vote by Conor MacNeill]
* better subproject handling
[will need more discussion because of vote by Conor MacNeill]
