There have been a couple of other C++ tasks that have been submitted for consideration over the last few months and the response has been mixed. There are some that feel that a C++ task is a distraction to Ant, others think a good C++ task would be very useful.
You might want to review some of the recent threads on the topic, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&w=2&r=1&s=gcc&q=b should be a start. I had really good intentions to try to take the best features of the two other C++ tasks and set up an area on the ant-contrib project at SourceForge to try to work in the features that I would like. My criteria for success would be that Ant could be used to build Xerces-C and Xalan-C on all supported platforms. Of course, that would require the participation of quite a few people, since I don't have a OS/390, AS/400 or 20 other different platforms. One of the things that seemed missing from the other tasks is a way to specify compiler specific flags for multiple compilers in the task, something like <cpp...> <flags compiler="gcc" os="Win32" processor="x86" flags="..."/> <flags compiler="vc6" os="Win32" processor="x86" flags="..."/> <flags compiler="gcc os="Linux" processor="Alpha" flags="..."/> </cpp> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
