At 04:33 13/11/00 -0800, you wrote: >On 11/3/00 4:39 AM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You are far more familiar with Avalon than I am, would your vision >>> make Ant depend on Avalon? >> >> well it could (and IMHO should) but we could make it independent by >> reimplementing stuff they already have. > >-1. Ant should depend on itself to the maximum extent possible. Reusable >frameworks are good -- but Ant needs to be as self reliant and small and >easy to build as possible.
Well it can just incorporate into same jar via a jlink task. I don't see any need to reinvent the wheel thou. There has already been requests to create things that map to things in Avalon 1-to1. (ie command line parsing, logging etc). I really don't see it as a good thing to reinvent the wheel except for performance or license reasons - neither of which apply here. Do you still think it would be better to reinvent the wheel ? Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
