At 10:33 17/4/01 +1000, Conor MacNeill wrote: >From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> At 08:04 17/4/01 +1000, Conor MacNeill wrote: >> >From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * create the concept of workspace so that projects can be built in a >> >> DAG and thus enable projects like catalina/tomcat to have an easy >> >> build process. It also helps CJAN to a lesser degree and would >> >> partially solve the JARs in CVS thing. >> > >> >+1 >> >> >> >> * Allow a target to depend on a target which is in another buildfile. >> >> >> > >> >-1 >> >> Isn't the above two a self-contradiction on your part? How do you propose >> that the first be satisfied without the second ? >> > >Well, nobody has really defined what the workspace concept is. It is hard >to agree or disagree on a concept without knowing what it really means. If >the two concepts are so intertwined, I don't see why they are separate >items. Anyway, my concept of a workspace was to be able to define a set of >builds and how the builds, as whole items, depend on one another (pretty >much GUMPish).
So from what I get - you want ant to stay the same as it is now - workspaces are just some set of conventions? In effect your +1 for first point is just a "lets establish some conventions" vote - yer ? Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
