on 11/11/2000 7:40 PM, "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 Hi Conor, You seem to be the ONLY person who actually read my entire email. I was referring to the .bat/.sh files that invoke Ant. To the rest of you all...READ MY ENTIRE EMAIL! :-( -jon > 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
