----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Ant-Extension-Mechanism - Step 1
> * you implement your own outputter - is that just so you can use any > arbitary xml-parser ? Much simpler... I copied that part from XmlLogger.java :-) > * There is no way to include task documentation. As yet Ant doesn't have > any standard format thou I assume in future it will go to a stylebook type > formaty and thus it would be nice to do something like > And one could add something like description="" to tasks so one could do ant -listtasks to show what tasks are available to ant and what they may do for you. I don't know if it is better to make this mechanism do "all we can need at once" or just start with a "simple" extension-machanism and add other features later? The first will possibly not make it into Ant 1.2 as people are crying for a release, the second one could do it. Nico
