Hello, I not agree on all ...
The <if/> is not a good thing, and especially in big builds. My builds are quite comlex and I reduce complexity by developping my own tasks : this is the official way and (IMHO) should be promoted. I developped wrapper around conditionnal things but now I have access to macro by <macrodef/>, and I think i will refactor my build around this. So i think than the <if/> has no place in ANT any more, if it could had one. The same things for <foreach/>. I think than Ant 1.6 is a quite revolution (cleaner ways, simpler ways), so i do not want it to be misunderstood.(In My Humble Opinion) I use the try/catch, and it could be shipped but I do not want that it convince newbies than Ant is a scripting framework. It is a real danger. For the propertyCopy, i use it a lot, but i am searching a cleaner way to do it. On this i do not have an opinion. Emmanuel ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoyé : jeudi 9 octobre 2003 12:59 Objet : RE: failonerror; general solution To tell you the truth I think that the 5(?) tasks of antcontrib are just a necesity if you try to write large ANT scripts that must be maintainable by more than one person. The <if/> task helps reduce the amount of temporary variables ant special init-targets and intermediate targets whose only need is to check for a property being set or not. <trycatch/> speaks for itself. In my builds, at least, <foreach/> is a necesity, since many of my modules must be build several times with different configuration parameters. And the number of configurations is configurable. The other ones, <propertycopy> and others are just good. This is why I think we should ask for permission to ship it as an antlib. It will serve as an example of the power of the framework. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 October 2003 19:58 > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: failonerror; general solution > > > > >I'm not as eager to see the tasks in Ant proper as others, > that's why I > >haven't taken any initiative here (in Apache speak, that's the > >difference between my +0 and the +1s that have been cast by others). > > > > > > > Are we talking about all ant-contrib tasks or just try/catch? > I thought > just try/catch... > > -Gus > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- ----------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
