On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:25 am, Darrell DeBoer wrote: >> When functionality needs to be shared between tasks, it's >> much better to refactor that functionality out into a separate, >> well-defined helper class to be used by both Tasks. > > As in the example of MatchingTask ;)
MatchingTask is there for historical reasons, it predates FileSet and PatternSet which came to existance exactly for the reason Darrell mentions. > i don't disagree at all, but i will point out that while we're > preaching this, the Ant tree, in many places, does not look like > this! Ant's original developers and Ant's current developers are not the same people. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
