----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Splitting up optional.jar
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Steve Loughran wrote: > > > > 2 properties file is not bad - META-INF/anttasks.properties, > > > anttypes.properties. > > > > > > If we stop making the distinction between task and types ( i.e allow > > > tasks at top level ) there is no need for 2 properties files, > > > if something extends Task or has execute() it is a task, if not > > > type. > > > > and > > antconditions.properties > > antejbjar.properties > > antserverdeploy.properties > > ...etc > > Not sure what those are - I think we should reduce the distinctions > between "task" and "type", not to create other entities. > > > > so we would be using the zip file system for structure, rather than a single > > XML file > > First, this is not necesarily bad. At least in my experience most people > seems to deal much better with a file structure rather than editing an XML file > ( acording to even a well-defined DTD as web.xml ). who was suggesting hand editing? Xdoclet is all we need. There is nearly enough xdoclet markup in the ant javadocs to generate what we need. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
