On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > See the Ant 2 requirements list.... > But on my personal list: > - Better expression usage. See Jexl. Access to java objects rather than > just flat string properties.
Possible in myrmidon but will never be possible in ant1.x due to backwards compatability. > - More flexible include/import/antlib Possibly available in ant1.6 if someone steps up to do the work. > - Default processing for various tasks, e.g. run an ant task without a > build file, if all it wants is a simple property that can be made > available from the command line. Actually someone is using myrmidon to do that - or more precisely they are using myrmidon as a command line shell infrastructure. Mainly to try and get an "xml shell" working. > 'Build'. Myrmidon tries to integrate more 'project information' into the > descriptor (similar to Gumps, right Peter?), partially. The default project model in Myrmidon allows build files to cross reference each other and build within a single dependency graph but other than that it is mostly like ant1.x. However you can write tasks that will enable myrmidon to directly process gump or maven descriptors. Adam has experimented with some of this stuff and a few other people who are not subscribed to this list are experimenting with it in other domains. One crazy guy is even using it as a command language for his home video (Yikes!) > rather than being Build > focussed....There are a ton of API issues I have with Ant, e.g. property > contexts being a single flat list, and not 'shareable' between called > builds..... yep. Backwards compatability is the main reason. -- Cheers, Peter Donald "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." -- Maugham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
