> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2002 10:02 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: cvs commit: > jakarta-ant/proposal/myrmidon/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant Task.java > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:51, Adam Murdoch wrote: > > > We could almost reimport that ant1 compat layer and gump wouldn't > > > break ... > > > well almost ;) > > > > Er, which ant1 compat layer? > > It was written about a year ago and basically allowed you to run > *most* ant1 > tasks. (At least the ones that didn't do naughty things). There was a few > holes > > * it didn't redirect standard out like ant1.x > * it didn't handle ant1.x listeners properly > * it didn't handle any task that went and fiddled with inner bits (ie the > optional.ide.* tasks) > * it didn't gracefully handle tasks that reused other tasks via > createTask() > > I am sure there are other things I am missing but it handled a lot of the > ant1 tasks. I actually shipped a version of myrmidon that run a > bunch of ant1 > tasks as part of a product and they haven't complained ... too > loudly yet ;) > > Anyways when I restarted working on myrmidon I removed it from CVS when I > imported the main ant1.x tree because it caused funny buggers > with gump. I > didn't know enough about gump at the time to fix it and couldn't > really be > bothered. > > It is relatively easy to reimport the code once we are further along in > converting the ant1.x tasks to myrmidon - and more importantly no > myrmidon > code resides in the ant1.x namespace. >
Might be worth reimporting it in chunks, so that we don't have to wait until *everything* has been moved across. We could certainly start with the basic bits - Project, Target, Task, and BuildException. Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
