Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
Dear Ant-Team, I am an avid Ant user since more than 10 years back and I'm happy to see how it has progressed! Recently I have begun writing very complex build scripts and found myself craving for a more programmatic solution which using Ant in standard configurations means using JavaScript or

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Vimil Saju
Hi Anders, Have you tried groovy script? I think groovy is completely compatible with java. That is any valid java code is valid groovy code too.  From: Anders Rundgren anders.rundg...@telia.com To: dev@ant.apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:11

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2012-09-20 13:21, Vimil Saju wrote: Hi Anders, Have you tried groovy script? I think groovy is completely compatible with java. That is any valid java code is valid groovy code too. Hi Vimil, I guess you refer to: http://groovy.codehaus.org ? I haven't tried with Groovy script and my

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Jeffrey E Care
Anders Rundgren anders.rundg...@telia.com wrote on 09/20/2012 07:55:13 AM: I haven't tried with Groovy script and my request is really about getting a core feature already verified being useful in NAnt into the default Ant installation so you can ship build scripts to anybody (having an

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2012-09-20 15:11, Jeffrey E Care wrote: Anders Rundgren anders.rundg...@telia.com wrote on 09/20/2012 07:55:13 AM: I haven't tried with Groovy script and my request is really about getting a core feature already verified being useful in NAnt into the default Ant installation so you can

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Jeffrey E Care
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

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Matt Benson
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

Re: Request - Native Java Script Support

2012-09-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2012-09-20 18:45, Jeffrey E Care 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)