(...putting flame-proof boots on...)
On Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Peter Vogel wrote: <snip>
Just look at how many people post to this list with problems that would
be solved by a few simple features which are repeatedly blocked by a few
select committers:
foreach
if
expansion of variables in the depends attribute
<snip> (apologies if the previous paragraph isn't representative of your position)
once you go down the road of introducing features that more right belong in scripting languages, where are you going to stop?
have you ever thought that a better way to solve your problem might be to generate your build scripts?
that way you can use a proper, fully functional scripting language such as velocity to design your templates. when you run the main build script, use (for example) the texen task to generate your specialized build script from your template and run the generated script all from within ant.
- robert
