Antlibs are interesting for people writing and publishing tasks and for peoples who managing the ant installations.
Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:00 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: RE: 1.6 migration guide? > > > Thank you. This is very helpful, a start, anyway, on what I > was after. > If Peter has time, I would really like to see what he comes up with. > > On antlib, I guess I don't understand yet why I would want to > do what it > does. I'm sure there must be some power in this concept but > I don't yet > understand what that is. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:53 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: AW: 1.6 migration guide? > > > First of all, the change from ant1.5 to ant1.6 is not that drastic. > > There are new tasks and extensions of existing tasks. > > The most revolutionary feature is antlib. It should allow users to > create jar files with a descriptor containing all the taskdefs and > typedefs that are required. > > This work done by Peter Reilly should also make it easier to deliver > custom conditions, filters, ... > > Really, Peter Reilly should be the one to write this migration guide. > > Read the docs/manual/CoreTypes/antlib.html file, > docs/manual/CoreTypes/custom-programming.html. > > Apart from antlib, the <import/> task is certainly useful. I > am not 100% > sure myself what you can do and not do with it, but in principle it is > there to allow several build files to use a common part containing for > instance property definitions, but also targets and whatever > is legal in > a main build file. > > Then <subant/> is a nice wrapper around <ant/> to run <ant/> against a > fileset of build files, or to run <ant/> n times against the > same build > file, changing the base dir. > > Other than that, there is the possibility to put normal tasks directly > under the <project/> task (outside of any targets) which is > nice if you > want to write a small build file. > > Then the <ssh/> and <scp/> tasks will be very useful for deployment. > > That's the main points which spring to my mind. > > Antoine > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. September 2003 15:51 > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: RE: 1.6 migration guide? > > > Jan, my comments are based on the fact that this is what I want as a > user. The point is that, as I said, I haven't been involved in 1.6 > development and I don't know much, if anything, about what these > features are. So I can't write this document. But if one of the > developers who is centrally involved can write this document, it would > be very useful. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
