Conor writes: > Just to be clear - you are not supporting a JSR style > process, are you?
Its good to clarify - there were two proposals in that paragraph. :-) Based on your wording, it sounds like you think a JSR process might not be a good idea. Am I misreading that? I don't know all of the pros/cons, but JSR for Ant seems fairly obvious to me -- the JSR process is being used to standardize all manner of 3rd party Java tools/servers, why not something as common as a build system? This JSR/Jakarta tie-in seems to work fairly well for Tomcat, and the taglibs project has welcomed with open arms JSR-052 (standard taglib) with many of the committers (myself included) becoming members of the expert committee, as well as hosting the RI. So why not do this for Ant? One of the stated goals of Ant2 is to be useful in multiple contexts, e.g. command line, IDE, autobuild tools, etc. A JSR process would get direct input from 3rd party IDE vendors to ensure that Ant is adopted across those tools. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:50 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Ant 1.9 & Task Packaging > > > Peter Donald wrote: > > > > > Ant2 has not happened because the only reason some people > want to contribute > > to it is to see their names as authors and they want to > "own" ant core and > > control its evolution to one degree or another. > > > Are you referring to me? That's OK - I still love ya, Pete, > but please, > let us not be coy. > > >>Further, if we're really moving to a container architecture > with Ant2, then > >>we should define a spec for the build file, execution > engine, and task > >>extensions API through a JSR and have a separate jakarta > project for the > >>optional task libraries, similar to the "taglibs" project > that provides > >>libraries for extending JSP. That project would build many > jar files, which > >>could be included in the project via build file reference & > descriptor as > >>mentioned above. > >> > > > > +1 > > > > I have campaigned for this many a time but everytime there > is a committer > > that will veto it ... > > > > Just to be clear - you are not supporting a JSR style > process, are you? > > Conor > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
