Diane, I think you're missing the point, or am I... No one wants Ant to be an elist tool.
It was designed to be a JAVA program to build java. It was designed to be extended using java because that was the original CONCEPT - a platform independent build system that was extensible. In fact, the scripting support it has was made possible by by writing, in java, a script task. It's a testimony to Ant's power that people are finding it useful for many things. Extending it with scripting languages seems counter to the original intent. Yet a comment like: > > --- 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. seems to imply that java as an extension mechanism is not enough. I think it is enough. That's all the point I was trying to make. I'm not against using the script task to gain additional benefit. I'm sorry you don't have time to learn java. Guess what? I don't have time to learning a scripting language... In fact, right now, I don't even have time to try to write a java task to do a few things I need, so I fall back on 'exec' to get the job done today, and later on I'll see if I have time to do it better.
