Some years ago Stefan Bodewig and Jan Materne worked on this: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/javafront/
YMMV Matt On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey E Care <ca...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com> wrote on 09/20/2012 09:27:10 > AM: > >> I guess I knew that this idea wouldn't get a big hooray... >> >> If you had tried NAnt you would probably agree that in-line Java >> is cooler than custom tasks because you (can) have the entire script >> in one file. >> >> The proposal wasn't to satisfy my own needs but to serve a large base >> of Ant users who are considering jumping the ship for Maven and other >> tools. > > I doubt I would agree. > > In my experience anything sufficiently complicated that it can't be > handled by the standard tasks is going to require non-trivial custom code. > No matter what technology I'm using to implement that custom code (e.g. > javascript, java, groovy) I'm not going to want to clutter up my build.xml > with it. I'm going to want to use my regular development tools to write > that code. > > Having operated in both the Ant & Maven worlds my answer is the same: if I > need to do something custom in Ant I'm going to want to write a > full-fledged custom task instead of trying to inline it in my build.xml; > if I need to do something custom in Maven I'm going to want to write a > full-fledged mojo instead of trying to inline it in my POM. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
