On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Erik Hatcher wrote: > I don't agree with that argument. The world is stuck with Ant 1.x for the > near future, and it certainly will live on for a while after Ant2 is > released as well.
IMHO: it may (or should) stick a very long time. So far ant1 solves all my 'itches', I use the current build.xml and the current task interfaces in many projects and custom tasks. I can't imagine any technical reason to switch to ant2 and spend the time to change code and build files. And if ant2 will have stricter contracts - it'll also probably have less flexibility and more rules to follow - an extra reason to stick with ant1 as long as a copy will be available somewhere on the web. As more projects and tasks are using ant, the harder and unlikely will be to get people to use ant2 - unless it is backward compatible on both build.xml and task interface. Which can be done if the new 'cool' interface is added as a separate package, and a 'backward compat' layer is maintained ( which could be the current code ). > Making Ant1.x more usable and extensible in the short term only seems like a > *good thing* to me. So many benefits, and no negatives that I can see. +1 - the negative is fewer reasons to switch to ant2, but that's not bad ( for many people who have existing projects ). Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
