Jon, beanshell looks cool. Are you referring to the ant .bat/.sh files themselves or to .bat/.sh files that are invoked from an ant build?
Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 12 November 2000 7:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: beanshell > > > hey all, > > i'm new to the list, but i have actually got some of my code > in Ant so i'm > not new to Ant by any means. > > Since i'm new to the list, i'm not sure what sort of > discussion has already > happened around adding BeanShell support to Ant. Can anyone > catch me up real > quick? > > <http://www.beanshell.org/> > > If no discussion has happened, I would like to propose that > we add BeanShell > support to Ant. What I would like to do is essentially use > BeanShell as a > replacement for the complex .sh/.bat files that we have to > use to go along > with execution of Ant. > > Ant and BeanShell essentially overlap in functionality quite > a bit, so, I'm > not really proposing even making a BeanShell Task, although I > think that > might be a good idea in the future for people who might want > to execute > their stuff as BeanShell Script vs. Ant .xml syntax. > > The real problem that I'm having now is that the .sh and .bat > files are a > real pain in the ass to manage and are not easily re-usable > and I would like > to move the code that is in those files off to something that > is a bit more > cross platform portable, like BeanShell. > > Essentially, we could replace 99% of what is in the .sh and > .bat files with > something like this: > > <http://www.beanshell.org/manual/execscripts.html> > > Where the contents of the .sh and .bat files would then be > "ported" over to > BeanShellScript language. > > I'm also willing to spend some 2am coding time on working on > this as this is > a real problem for me... > > Comments? Flames? Suggestions? > > -jon > > -- > http://scarab.tigris.org/ | http://noodle.tigris.org/ > http://java.apache.org/ | http://java.apache.org/turbine/ > http://www.working-dogs.com/ | http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ > http://www.collab.net/ | http://www.sourcexchange.com/ >
