At 01:16  15/5/01 -0400, Jesse Tilly wrote:
>Am I the only person that thinks conditional flow control using XML is just
>a Bad Thing(tm)?  Flow control == processing and we already have excellent
>processing languages.
>
>A target is a "piece of work".  If that piece of work depends on other
>pieces of work, we define that in dependencies.  Everything in this design
>is pass/fail,  Like a transaction.  If/unless attempts to add a tiered
>conditional process tree on top of this pass/fail concept.  This is not what
>a target (or should I say *my* opinion of what a target) should be.
>
>If the desire is so strong for Ant to be a cross-platform build scripting
>language, why can't we just implement a subset of Python for Ant2 and quit
>trying to kludge scripting into XML?

+1

Cheers,

Pete

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