----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Skeet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:55 AM Subject: RE: Ant 2 et al.
>Don't take this as knocking Ant in general - it does its job amazingly well, and the "mess" is, I suspect, a >necessary byproduct of backwards compatibility and the evolutionary model. I just wouldn't hold the >codebase up as a paragon of virtue in itself. >(Mind you, I haven't looked at the other Jakarta projects - you may well be right about it being the cleanest, >and that just doesn't mean it's actually clean :) As someone who has seen the NT codebase, I must observe that backwards compatibility is ugly, especially when glued onto a fairly clean underlying system, but it tends to help with success. And as NT shows, you can move a lot of the compatibility ugliness from the core of the system to a higher level layer, leaving the core much cleaner. -steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
