If you'all want to add all this extra overhead to something that was meant to be light wieght and well focused, maybe a new effort should be started....
We could call it Ant++ Diane, I don't mean to sound cruel or harsh, but ignorance of java seems to me to be a lame excuse for adding something to Ant. That's like saying "Well, I don't know Fortran too well, but I'm good at Visual Basic. Why don't you Fortran guys add Visual Basic support to Fortran so I can use what I know." Again, I'm not trying to be harsh, just trying to highlight what the issue is... Oh, and let's please not start a Java vs JavaScript holy war... Diane Holt wrote: > --- Patrick Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being able to extend Ant's capabilities using Java is certainly a > > great thing, but having that be the only extension mechanism is > > limiting. > > And especially so to those Ant users who don't really know Java all that > well. I can't just whip out some new task -- but I can probably get a > script put together fairly easily (once I get back into js and start > remembering more of what I used to know :) > > Diane > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/
