On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:13, Peter Vogel wrote: > Peter D -- I think you need to rethink your position. While templating is > nice, and I amy even use it in the future, blocking progress of base ant > in this manner will only lead to ant becoming a boat anchor when people > stop being amazed by the javac task and start using it for building > real *systems*.
I assume you are trolling. The questions you ask have been discussed in past. Besides quite a few "real" systems are built today using ant. And just FYI it was Stefan who blocked this not me ;) I just said I will -1 for Ant2. > From my POV, your templating concepts ADD complexity for very little > value... Well for one it adds the ability of foreach/if/ etc that you seem to want? 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 | *-----------------------------------------------------*
