On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Glen Mazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perfectly understandable, as you would not want poorly maintained
> optional tasks ending up degrading Ant's reputation as a build tool.

It's not only a question of reputation.

One of Ant's biggest burdens is backwards compatibility, and the more
tasks we have, the more difficult it becomes.  When we introduce a new
task in a release we must be pretty sure that its public interface is
a good one - which is pretty hard to do if you don't know the problem
domain well enough.

And certainly, if less bugs on custom tasks get reported against Ant,
we stand a bigger chance to fix those reported against Ant's
internals.

Stefan

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