At 12:30 26/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >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.
I am not sure you want to limit it to java. You should (IMHO) be able to write java interpreters in any language at all ;) Oh and about use cases -personally my main use is for maintaining websites (not doing any compiling at all!!) Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
