Sam, From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A bootstrap.java is an excellent idea. If nobody else has time, I will > volunteer to do the work to put this into a 1.x release. I will look to > the current release manager to detemine the appropriate timing for this > activity (i.e., should this go into 1.3 or post 1.3?). I said in the release plan that we would accept new features, et al up to the 5th. If you feel you could have a bootstrap.java in place and building ant well enough before that, I am comfortable with that. Duncan's AntEaster proposal was going down this path, so it may be worth a look. I can help if you need it. OTOH, if you think it need it would need some shaking down and may not be stable by the 5th, I think it would be best to wait. After all, this will not really be visible to ant users. If we move to a bootstrap.java, then I would also like to look at moving some of the logic that is in ant.bat/ant into Java code. I think that this will require playing with classloaders <shudder/> Conor
