On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If someone gave me the choice between 1 line of Ant and 164 lines of > custom Java code with throws Exception throughout and a whole load of > empty catch blocks I know which I'd choose.
For anyone who wants to try to embed Ant that's your perogative. When you try it, which I'm sure you and Vincent want to you be responsible for all that entails. Up to this point you and Vincent have never been responsible for any of the Ant voodoo required to make Ant work in Maven. I've taken code from the commons, ant and other places in order to provide a small set of plugins that are self-contained, easy to test, easy to embed. The bottom line is that you've never done of the Ant integration and it's not fun and it's not productive. That said I am working with James to extract the Ant embedding solution that is present in groovy so that it can also be used in Maven. But my priority for plugins is clarity, economy of size, speed, having as few dependencies as possible, the ability to work in long-lived process, the ability for plugins to communicate with each other during a long-lived process and code that reflects the simplicity provided by maven's directory structure. As far as the core goes, with it's plugins it will be entirely free from Ant and Jelly. Ant just wasn't design well for embedding and the Jelly/Ant tag library is clear evidence of that as is the groovy ant code. There is nothing that would stop you from from using Ant code but you get the fun of integrating it and then we'll see how much you like it. I personally don't although I am in the process of extracting the ant groovy stuff for use in maven generally that can be used in a layer outside the core. If groovy is integrated into maven2 then we'll get ant integration for free anyway. But a scripting option will be layered upon the core which will be as small, fast as possible with as few dependencies as humanly possible. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maven.apache.org happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
