On 1/16/08, Gilles Scokart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just saying that Ant benefits/(or suffer...) from great flexibility, > and you should not change that. [...]
I agree with Xavier, control in large build system is a very desirable feature, if only to force developers to talk to the build team to ease restrictions at times, for example. Final methods and classes in Java are not used often, but they are essential for some patterns, and no one forces you to use them. So no, dismissing a feature useful to some, when you are not forced to use it, is not a position I find OSS friendly. For example, I wasn't at first particularly favorable to genericantfile in <subant>, which I consider a bit my "baby", yet it was quite useful to some, and they provided patches, so who am I to dismiss their use case? So hint hint Louis, patches for your proposed extension-restricting features useful in large corporate build setting are more than welcome ;-))) --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
