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 *-----------------------------------------------------* | "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 | *-----------------------------------------------------*
