I have NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO idea how you jumped from naming convetion (ie setFoo() vs createFoo() addFoo()) to generic tasks ...
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:30, Matthew Inger wrote: > Peter, > > While i agree, ant should not be forced to implement everything > make does, it would be nice to have the ability to have a generic > "compile" task. The reason for this is for apis like rmi (though I > think there's an rmic task), idl, and jaxb, which do preprocessing of > files, and then generate java code. It would avoid having to write > seperate tasks for each one as they come a long, making it easier > to support new preprocessor type apis... > > just my $.02 > > Peter Donald wrote: > >On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:26, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >>On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>We should talk about that in the > >>>>context of Ant2, for now it would give us a major backwards > >>>>compatibilty problem. > >>> > >>>I can not see that - where do you see the compatability problem? > >> > >>We already have built-in tasks that have attributes and nested > >>elements of the same name (see javac with classpath). Tasks may have > >>chosen to do different things with them (javac does, but this is > >>silly). > > > >but they are still differentiable .. you said so as much below ;) Which > > means that there is not likely to be overlap (I would say extremely > > unlikely). > > > >>>Attributes are restricted to primitive types + string and File at > >>>the moment, > >> > >>Not true at all - attributes are restricted to types that have a > >>constructor using a single String argument, while lements are > >>restricted to types that have a no-arg constructor. I'd guess it is > >>not that uncommon for a class to support both types of constructors. > > > >oh ;) > > > >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 | > > > >*-----------------------------------------------------* -- 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 | *-----------------------------------------------------*
