For ant 1.8, we will support jdk6 javax.script.* in some fashion. JDK 6 has javascript (a nobbled version of rhino) built in - so ant build files will get that language for free if the they use JDK 6.
On 9/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I also think that a lot of the code in the current optional tasks >> could be re-written using scriptdefs instead and provided as an >> antlib.
IKK, no! This would keep the core in Java, but move the more
>'scripty' >> style of tasks into a more appropriate tool/lang > >I'm not convinced that script languages are more appropriate 8-) Me neither. IMHO its easier to do more complicated checks, e.g. if attribute combination is ok eg. with check*() methods. But maybe I am not familiar enough with scripting.... >> Downsides are of course that the implementation language of Ant >> changes (core in Java, some optional tasks implemented as scriptdefs >> + a. n. other language). >> >> Anyway, please post flames in 3..2..1 > >Not a flame. Even though I personally don't like the idea of >replacing existing tasks, I wouldn't stand in the way. Thats the fine thing on this list: we dont flame :-) >But an observation. Gump used to be written in Java and XSLT. > It was re-written in Python because Python seemed to be more >appropriate and Gump might attract developers from the >non-Java parts of the ASF. The result today is that the >number of active developers has dropped from about two to about zero.
Opps! Oh - Gump3 is over?
>If we chose a "standard" scripting language for Ant,
Not a snowballs change in hell! ;-)
it means >the Ant developer community must feel comfortable with it. >Comfortable enough to be able to maintain and review the code. And the scripting language must Ants Java-compliance-mode: runnable+compilable on JDK1.2.
Ant core has to be JDK 1.2 - at least for the moment. (It is getting difficult to get JDK1.2 to test with....). Some non-core optional tasks may depend on higher jdk's - apt is an example, but the policy should be only to do this if absolutly required. Jan
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