There is also another possibility (the one that I am using) - write scripts that generate ANT scripts and run them. It is slower, but it is more lightweight in a sense that it is completely separate from ANT, so it does not depend on ANT code. That script could be in any language, but a language with helpful syntactic sugar would be preferred.
- Alexey. On 9/15/06, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/15/06, Jesse Glick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My personal experience with Ant has always been that the tasks are > great, and the control flow is maddening. [...] > > I don't buy the argument that Ant is currently "declarative". It's > nothing of the sort in my experience. [...] Whao, it's good you got that off your chest Jesse ;-) Great post! I don't agree on all your points, but my experience is not far from your own. I too would like to have an official and easy to use scripting language always available in Ant (and ECMAScript is a good condidate), but as a way to extend the default Ant behavior or do a one off thing for a given build, not to replace the current Ant. What you describe (Ant in JavaScript, or a build tool as a script language program) as already been done in Ruby, or Python (A-A-P) and probably lots others. It's a radical change from the current Ant, and one that, despite the scripty nature of current Ant builds, would only lead to even more scripty and spaghetti build "programs". I could be wrong of course. I have no doubt BTW that you could write a JavaScript-based Ant-equivalent that leverages the current Ant tasks. Maybe you should even starts such a project, and do changes in the core where necessary to support this project, but Ant should go on in its current XML-based form IMHO, however flowed many people find it. --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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