On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Denis Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, some of these need (a) context outside the URL and (b) > special logic to understand what 'success' and 'failure'.
True - but simple things like FTP could be added easily. > For example, LDAP, JDBC and JNDI urls are useful to support in the > sense that they enable ANT to coordinate a network test or > deployment but each of them would need to be implemented > independently. Agreed. > As for building the http request into available, I would be > concerned that user's would get confused by the large number of > options for controlling <available>; Some people say that we already have too many of them today 8-). Point taken. One thing to consider is that we may end up with a file system abstraction some day, that would render the difference between files and HTTP non-existent - at least as far as available is concerned. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
