Gus Heck wrote, On 02/09/2003 17.26: ...
From Nicola Ken Barozzi:
>Imports should be reusable bits of builds. But instead they carry the baggage
>of targets. With macrodef I can finally *create tasks using Ant*.
And so Ant becomes an xml based programming language? Writing tasks in java seems preferable to me.
Ant is an "Ant" programming language. Writing "tasks" in Ant is much much simpler if they are an aggregation and specialization of existing Ant tasks, way simpler.
I am not opposed to macrodef, but I want clear syntax that doesn't make atributes look like properties, and if we do have macrotemplates (which I still have some reservations about) I think they should have a backwards compatable syntax that is also clearly different from both properties and atributes. A clear syntax is my biggest gripe here.
Any syntax is ok for me, I just tend to think that the proposed one is clear enough.
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