Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:50 26/3/01 +1000, Conor MacNeill wrote: >>> * Allow ant to farm out attributes and elements that are NOT in >>> * the ant namespace to other components. ie hand doc: elements to >>> * the >>Documentation >>> component or log: attributes to Log policy component etc >> >>-0 Not sure what this means - can we dicuss more? > > It was just an idea I had ages ago (or maybe it was suggested on the > list?). Essentially associated with every task there are certain > "aspects" that have little to do with what the task does but do > relate to how we "host" the task. Some aspects that have been > suggested so far include
I agree that we should move things common to all tasks out of the Task interface itself, what I'm not convinced of is the use of namespaces here. Why should a build file writer be bothered to know whether failonerror is handled by the task itself or something else? Stefan
