I appreciate the remarks, Glenn, and I surely would like the chance to make Ant an even better product than it is...
However, I'll freely admit that I'm just a Java programmer who has gotten involved in Ant from a practical angle. If I'm missing something, and there's a *better* way to do what I want to do (that is, with as little transfer knowledge required for my successor as possible), then by all means, educate me. If the solution to my spawned environment problem is using an include XML PI, and then running it through some preprocessor, then I think I disagree, because then the next person has to know how to use _that_ tool as well. This could easily become an endless game. The fact remains that this functionality is associated with the build process in itself, and not with integration of external functions, and so should be supported by any good build tool. These are just my opinions, of course. John -----Original Message----- From: glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:09 AM To: ant-dev Cc: glenn Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ant batching support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As per Mr. Bodewig's advice, I'm submitting this suggestion to you > folks in the hopes that we can work something out in the future... Not to shoot down Peter's and Stefan's responses to this post (as I tend to agree with them), but were we not in agreement that we would add *any and all* suggestions to the list, and debate their merits later? -- (2) Everything that pops up (really everything, no matter how far fetched) will be committed to docs/ant/requested-features.txt. I will do my very best to commit everything but any help is appreciated of course. -- We are doing John a disservice by not holding to our own rules. Glenn McAllister
