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Log:
* Updated todo list.
* Removed the 'differences to ant1' blurbage from index.xml.
* Regenerated HTML.
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@@ -37,75 +37,6 @@
</section>
- <section name="Differences to Ant 1.x">
-
- <p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and Myrmidon:</p>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>
- Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing
- <i>antlib</i> task
- libraries. This makes it very easy to distribute and
install tasks and data-types.
-
- </li>
-
- <li>
- A project can import other projects, and reference their
targets.
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Changes to the property model:
-
- <ul>
- <li>Properties and data type references now share
the same namespace.</li>
- <li>Properties are mutable.</li>
- <li>Properties are scoped into global, local, and
parent contexts.</li>
- <li>
- <code>if</code> and
- <code>unless</code> checks now test the property
- value against
- <code>false</code>, in addition to testing
set/not-set.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Changes to task and data-type API:
-
- <ul>
- <li>An interface based API, through which a task
interacts with the
- task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
- <li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
- <li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are
configured.</li>
- <li>Reference handling is handled automatically when
objects are configured.</li>
- <li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add
facilities like logging,
- error handling, or user preferences.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- A set of well-defined services and APIs have been
introduced, to allow
- tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
-
- <ul>
- <li>Execute external commands.</li>
- <li>Execute other tasks.</li>
- <li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
- <li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
- <li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
- <li>...</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <p>There are plenty more features planned. You can read about
them
- <a href="todo.html">here</a>.
- </p>
-
- </section>
-
</body>
</document>
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@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@
<code>ant-services.xml</code> descriptor.
</li>
- <li>Route external process stdout and stderr through the
logger.</li>
<li>Add verbosity level to ProjectListener LogEvent</li>
<li>Fire ProjectListener events taskFinished(),
targetFinished() and
projectFinished() events on build failure, adding
indicator methods to
@@ -350,7 +349,11 @@
<li>Move
<code>crimson.jar</code> to
<code>bin/lib</code> in the distribution,
- and make to other jars via the extension mechanism.
+ and make available to other jars via the extension
mechanism.
+ </li>
+ <li>Change <code>DefaultPropertyResolver</code> to
ignore '$${'.</li>
+ <li>Add a <code>--type</code> command-line option, to
allow
+ the project builder to be manually selected.
</li>
<li>Unit tests.</li>
</ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
@@ -76,85 +78,27 @@
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p>
-Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development. You can
-read more about the goals of Ant 2
-<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/">here</a>.
-</p>
- <p>
-Myrmidon is a general-purpose <i>task engine</i>. It contains the basic
-building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool. Ant 2
-is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the Myrmidon
task
-engine, and a library of build related tasks.
-</p>
- <p>
-Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might look. It
-includes a small set of tasks and data types. We are currently porting
-many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
-</p>
- <p>
-</p>
- </blockquote>
- </td></tr>
- </table>
- <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
- <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
- <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
- <a name="Differences to Ant 1.x"><strong>Differences to Ant
1.x</strong></a>
- </font>
- </td></tr>
- <tr><td>
- <blockquote>
- <p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and
Myrmidon:</p>
- <ul>
-
-<li>
-Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing <i>antlib</i> task
-libraries. This makes it very easy to distribute and install tasks and
data-types.
-</li>
-
-<li>
-A project can import other projects, and reference their targets.
-</li>
+ Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development.
You can
+ read more about the goals of Ant 2
-<li>
-Changes to the property model:
-<ul>
- <li>Properties and data type references now share the same
namespace.</li>
- <li>Properties are mutable.</li>
- <li>Properties are scoped into global, local, and parent contexts.</li>
- <li><code>if</code> and <code>unless</code> checks now test the property
- value against <code>false</code>, in addition to testing
set/not-set.</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
+ <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/">here</a>.
-<li>
-Changes to task and data-type API:
-<ul>
- <li>An interface based API, through which a task interacts with the
- task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
- <li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
- <li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are configured.</li>
- <li>Reference handling is handled automatically when objects are
configured.</li>
- <li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add facilities like
logging,
- error handling, or user preferences.</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-A set of well-defined services and APIs have been introduced, to allow
-tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
-<ul>
- <li>Execute external commands.</li>
- <li>Execute other tasks.</li>
- <li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
- <li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
- <li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
- <li>...</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Myrmidon is a general-purpose
+ <i>task engine</i>. It contains the basic
+ building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool. Ant
2
+ is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the
Myrmidon task
+ engine, and a library of build related tasks.
-</ul>
- <p>There are plenty more features planned.
You can read about them <a href="todo.html">here</a>.</p>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might
look. It
+ includes a small set of tasks and data types. We are currently
porting
+ many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
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<ul>
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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
@@ -82,6 +84,51 @@
<table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="Security Manager"><strong>Security Manager</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>Add the ability to run java programs that call
System.exit() by adding a
+ security manager. Should look something like:</p>
+ <div align="left">
+ <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img
src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0"
border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif"
width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img
src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0"
border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif"
width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>
+public class MyrmidonSecurityManager
+ extends SecurityManager
+{
+ public void checkExit( final int status )
+ {
+ throw new ExitException( status );
+ }
+
+ public void checkPermission( final Permission permission )
+ {
+ }
+}
+ </pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif"
width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img
src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0"
border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif"
width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img
src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0"
border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </blockquote>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Self Hosting"><strong>Self Hosting</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="Validation Pass"><strong>Validation Pass</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>Consider calling validate() on task prior to
execute(). This would allow
+ us to have a "make -k" mode that actually did basic
validation and would also
+ encourage task writers to do validation properly.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Paths"><strong>Paths</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
@@ -154,12 +215,14 @@
Write tests for the various bits that rely on Myrmidon
functionality:
<ul>
+ <li>Simple sanity test</li>
<li>if/unless on targets: check that behaviour
complies with Ant1</li>
<li>Make sure properties are shared between Ant1 and
Myrmidon tasks.</li>
<li>Make sure that <ant1.property> behaves as
per Ant1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Get GUMP runs going using Myrmidon.</li>
+ <li>i18n messages</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
@@ -402,7 +465,6 @@
<code>ant-services.xml</code> descriptor.
</li>
- <li>Route external process stdout and stderr through the
logger.</li>
<li>Add verbosity level to ProjectListener LogEvent</li>
<li>Fire ProjectListener events taskFinished(),
targetFinished() and
projectFinished() events on build failure, adding
indicator methods to
@@ -438,7 +500,11 @@
<li>Move
<code>crimson.jar</code> to
<code>bin/lib</code> in the distribution,
- and make to other jars via the extension mechanism.
+ and make available to other jars via the extension
mechanism.
+ </li>
+ <li>Change <code>DefaultPropertyResolver</code> to
ignore '$${'.</li>
+ <li>Add a <code>--type</code> command-line option, to
allow
+ the project builder to be manually selected.
</li>
<li>Unit tests.</li>
</ul>
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</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
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<p><strong>Myrmidon</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="./index.html">Introduction</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./getinvolved.html">Get Involved</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./user.html">Building Myrmidon</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./todo.html">Todo List</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>User Guide</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="./buildfile.html">Build file</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./vfs.html">Virtual File System</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./ant1compat.html">Ant1 Compatibility Layer</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./differences.html">Differences to Ant1</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Extending Ant</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="./task.html">Task Writers HOWTO</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./classloader.html">ClassLoader HOWTO</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./librarys.html">Library HOWTO</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Container Design</strong></p>
<ul>
</ul>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Differences to Ant 1.x"><strong>Differences to Ant
1.x</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and
Myrmidon:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing
<i>antlib</i> task libraries. This makes it very easy to
distribute and install tasks and data-types.
</li>
<li> A project can import other projects, and reference their
targets. </li>
<li>Properties and data type references now share the same
namespace.</li>
<li>
Changes to task and data-type API:
<ul>
<li>An interface based API, through which a task
interacts with the
task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
<li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
<li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are
configured.</li>
<li>Reference handling is handled automatically when
objects are configured.</li>
<li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add
facilities like logging,
error handling, or user preferences.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A set of well-defined services and APIs have been
introduced, to allow
tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
<ul>
<li>Execute external commands.</li>
<li>Execute other tasks.</li>
<li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
<li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
<li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
<li>...</li>
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<p>There are plenty more features planned.
You can read about them
<a href="todo.html">here</a>.
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