Wolfgang Ha"felinger wrote:
Hey,
Ant's purpose is as a build tools, not a Java library.
Perhaps time to change. After all, there must be a reason why
Maven's community is growing :-)
Ahh, we arent going to go there.
<presetdef> is just syntactic sugar, and is better not used
IMHO.
I disagree. It's very cool. Almost as cool as "macrodef" which
I really love.
They are good, but work best if you put stuff into new namespaces as
otherwise you are redefining default things. Just like in C++, this can
get you into trouble. Just like in C++, they do give you near unlimited
power.
Regarding private vs public, private stuff is primarily there to let the
team changing things without fear of breaking stuff. There is a general
assumption that public method calls should stay around, purely for
people using Ant programmatically.
If you can make a good case for something becoming public, it will get
changed, or the underlying cause of your problems may get fixed in some
other way.
-steve
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