Naah bring it up again ;) I would like to see Ant (or the underlying components of Ant) used in as many wierd and wonderful ways as possible ;) I personally use a variation of Ant for a cron like tool I am working on, This has a different use case aswell (thou overlapping). I see the more diversity of ideas the better
Probably wont garner much comment thou till duncan presents his proposal ;) At 09:12 20/11/00 -0700, you wrote: >Ok... guess I'm from outer space. Won't bring it up again. > >jh > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hall, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:39 AM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: Proposed Revolution: AntEater (a proposal for Ant Core 2.0) > > >JDD, > >I made a suggestion to Stefan in an earlier thread that >I wanted to submit to you for "architecture revolution". :-) > >Besides getting ant in the house as the only build tool, we >found another use for it (or part of it at least). We have >a Java based installer tool that we use that didn't quite >meet our needs (i.e. it doesn't work!). What we ended up >doing was to use the installer tool gui to gather the >necessary information and used ant to actually install the >product. Now I'm not saying that I want ant to become an >installer tool, but that there are many common components/tasks >in ant that could be used in an installer tool. I think that >it would be worthwhile to architect ant 2.0 in a way that a >future installer tool project could re-use the ant >components/tasks that make sense for that project. >What do you think? > >jh > Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | Despite your efforts to be a romantic hero, you will | | gradually evolve into a postmodern plot device. | *------------------------------------------------------*
