On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 05:57, Peter Bright wrote: > > I am harsh, but honest $DIETY (sic) I am only trying to make your life > easier. > > You may be trying to make the lives of plugin developers a little easier, > but it doesn't seem at all clear that you're trying to make any user's lives > easier.
Well, you're entirely mistake. I don't actually care about plugin developers really in comparison with users. But there is also no point in making plugin development difficult. The user who might be newish to development or those that are flexible. For those who aren't you can right your own custom Python scripts and Ant tasks if that seems appealing which appears to be to some. No one is forcing you to use Maven. > The only "advantages" appear to be working around the inability of some > plugins to exclude filesets. The notion that application code must be > distinguished from test code by a path is absurd; I heartily disagree and it's not only my opinion. It's the shared opinion of the developers here which is the notion that manifests itself in the work we offer. The notion that would allow them to be combined seems absurd to me. Fortunately for you there is a choice. > an arbitrary file > specification is surely sufficient (for example, "all files in src except > those whose names begin with Test"), and surely more expressive. The > ability to put tests and source together should simply be a repercussion of > this greater expressiveness. No? You have got to be kidding? In that you would rather that approach than the separation. You can do that if you like with simple patternsets the question is why you would ever want to bother. Is not: <sourceDirectory/> <unitTestSourceDirectory/> Not abundantly clear and expressive? But I am curious: name one single advantage to putting test and application sources together. Basically the arguments for it have been "I want to do it so I should be able to" which is not likely to be taken seriously around here. > Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
