> From: Costin Manolache [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Fine - but do this in core, not in antlib. >
But this are changes to core. Granted they are comming as part of the bundle but they are not in antlib. What it is in antlib is a way to declare these roles and I am 100% with you that we should be able to declare them with a task of their owm that can be used in the buildfile directly. Fine with me. > Antlib needs to load whatever ant supports. Not to define new things. > > I don't have any problem with polymorphism ( or roles ). > Nobody said they > shouldn't be added. My only comment is that the implementation of > polymorphism shouldn't be tied with antlib, and I would > preffer a solution > that would simplify the core - i.e. interfaces or something > like that, that > would allow us to treat all components as components at the low level. > Well this is exactly what I am trying to achieve, and I think the it does. Roles ARE interfaces not strings. The names of the roles are just syntactic sugar to simplify declarations. > An unified way to treat all the sub-types should be defined > and implemented > as part of the core. > 100% with you. > We can wait with antlib ( the part that loads > whatever-things-ant-supports) > until polymorphism is defined, but I would preffer having > antlib included > in ant sooner. > Sounds good. Jose Alberto
