I like the enumeration syntax, like descriptor="required | otpional", it's much more readable and it will probably allow us to have less attributes on some of the tasks.
Maarten ----- Original Message ---- From: Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:09:23 AM Subject: Re: Fixing some naming inconsistencies in Ivy Just pinging about this e-mail, I've had no answer so far, I think I can't make the choice alone, and we need to deal with that question before 2.0final to close IVY-297. So, anyone has an opinion about this: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As reported by IVY-297, Ivy suffers from some name inconsistencies and > strange attribute names. Ivy 2.0 is a good opportunity to fix some of > them, since I think we can afford some more deprecation warnings. > > So I'd like to fix IVY-297 by marking allownomd as deprecated, and > providing a descriptor="required | optional" attribute. > > To go further, we could rename the attribute skipbuildwithoutivy in > buildlist in skipbuildwithoutdescriptor, or even better change it to > buildwithoutdescriptor="skip | fail | warn | tail | head", which wold make > it both more readable and more powerful. > > Another area where the name 'ivy' is used to talk about module descriptors > in general is patterns. This lead to some strange settings, where you give > an 'ivy' pattern to tell where the poms are. In this case I think we could > support both 'ivy' and 'descriptor' (for resolver patterns for instance), > since the use case for ivy files is still predominant, so I don't think > deprecating the old name would really be better. > > So, what do you think about these changes? > > Xavier > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
