Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread John D. Mitchell
Yes, this is a couple of months late. It's taken that long to get the mailing list to understand aliases (to get around the subscriber check). The Hatch master wrote: [...] And with Ant, you get to choose what programming language that is: script and now in 1.6, scriptdef (sorry, should

Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread Drew Davidson
John D. Mitchell wrote: The Hatchet wrote: And with Ant, you get to choose what programming language that is: script and now in 1.6, scriptdef (sorry, should have mentioned that earlier) for defining true Ant tasks with the (BSF supported) language of your choice. Ah, you're

Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Drew Davidson wrote: Especially the line that: The point is that builds can become arbitrarily complex, and anything less than a full programming language is just doesnt cut it. And with Ant, you get to choose what programming language that

RE: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread Tim Colson
Drew said: They all fail to realize that a build system *is* a process, and a script is a closer analog to some tasks than a declarative model. +1 on this, and most of the rest of Drew's post... (not including the farting bit, on that I'm -1 ;-) I dig simple ant stuff... but the more