From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It may not solve all the current problems, but I think it > > can solve most of them. > > I'm not against using a new mechanism for new things - starting to > ship new tasks in ant libraries and people have to import them > explicitly and to specify the classloader to use would help a lot. >
Fine. > But for the existing tasks: People will not want to explicitly import > <junit> when they had it on their system classpath and it worked like > a charm so far. > This is where autoloading comes into play. You do not have to say anything in your buildfile. ANT will load each piece in the classloader we imagine is best. > Even worse, a build file that used a new feature like named > classloaders wouldn't work in Ant 1.4.1, not talking about Ant 1.3 ;-) And every task that uses <delete> will not run in ANT 1.1. What's your point? Jose Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
