cut= So, other than for Politics, why should J# be treated any differently? Why even spend the time debating this??? =cut
My point exactly, debating all this j# stuff is detracting from the main purpose of this list. Don't get me wrong though I certainly dont think the world should revolve around java. Given the choice I would much prefer to spend my days coding c++ or perl which are both far more enjoyable languages. What I am saying though is that the whole point of open source projects with the Apache foundations work in particular is that people can make a choice as to what tools and environment they want to use without having to go cap in hand to their manager asking them to buy an expensive ide. So why should we encourage people to use a closed, highly restrictive development environment ? I'm not some hacker fascist , I've been through all that Microsoft junk (and it is junk) in the past and I don't want to be forced into a situation in another 2 or 3 years time that I have to give up all the free easy to use tools that I've got now and go back to using another clunky, badly documented, overhyped badly designed IDE. B-- -----Original Message----- From: Michael J McGonagle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2002 20:01 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant for J#? "Hunt, Bryan" wrote: > > If you think that ant should support J# your missing the point. If microsoft > > want to create disruptive technologies it should be at their expense that > support tools be developed. I am sorry that you took my post as supportive of Microshod, but you got me completely wrong. While the tool is written in Java, it would appear that there are others using it for NON-Java things. I, myself, would like to use it for handling the scheduling and process management for various tasks. I have thought about using Ant as a process manager for several network related tasks (ie retrieve via ftp, unzip the file, then do something else with it...). Or at the very least, it could be used to prototype something like I described. (What sort of security issues are there around Ant?) Beven describes his NON-Java useage for Ant in another message in this thread. These things have nothing to do with J#, which I would imagine, in the long run will have a very small percentage of attention from the Ant crowd. Just in the few months that I have read the list, it seems that Ant if far more than its supposed predessesor 'make'. And it also seems that more and more things are being done with it. So, other than for Politics, why should J# be treated any differently? Why even spend the time debating this??? Mike -- 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]>
