So we add this then. I am not closed to progress and change but let start small.
Jose Alberto > -----Original Message----- > From: Costin Manolache [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 April 2003 20:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Antlib descriptor > > > Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > > I am not too keen on having alive ANTS roaming in my classpath. > > > > Jar files are passive things, in general having too many in your > > classpath does not mean you will execute more stuff. I > think that is nice > > and autoinitializing jars (antlibs) sound way too scary at > this point. > > AFAIK the proposal doesn't implement autodiscovery - and we > don't know if we > will get getResources("META-INF/antlib.xml" ) or require > explicit <antlib > ...>. > > In any case - it is easy to give user explicit control. > > In many systems libraries have a initialization mechanism. We > may only allow > conditions for example - but I don't see anything > fundamentally wrong with > this, that would guarantee we'll never want to do this. > > Same for allowing libraries to define fragments and targets - > maybe today > most people thing it is a crazy idea, but one year from now > we may find it > usefull. Of course, we could change the parser then - but > we'll accumulate > a lot of behaviors that would make this difficult. > > > Costin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
