Yeah, exactly my thoughts too. <import> exists because Ant doesn't have real templating. Would be better to completely separate parsing from execution, as the Ant2 proposal allow, and enable using XLST-like feature within the buildfile to construct the DOM, then hand everything over to the execution engine... --DD
-----Original Message----- From: Jose Alberto Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:43 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Top level tasks --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The things that are still broken: > > Right now I'd say that ProjectHelper should stuff > all top level tasks > and data types into an anonymous target and hand > that target of to > Project. If project is asked to execute, then run > this implicit > target before calling anything else. > > Would this work or am I missing some (maybe obvious) > problems? > This means that things like <import> cannot use ${...} on the names of the files to import. Otherwise <import> would have to be a real task with all the consequences that brings :-P Jose Alberto __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
