Re: Approach to Conditionals: SOMETHING USEFUL ON THIS TOPIC

[Stefan Bodewig]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2001, matt inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I understand that your vision of ant does not involve making it a
> scripting language.  However, like myself, most users need some
> basic constructs for flow control.  I think the ContainerTask will
> definately be a step in that direction allowing users to develop
> their own tasks.  But, in a lot of cases, the people developing the
> ant input files are not necessarily java programmers, and could not
> really code up their own tasks, or effectively make their own
> conditionals.

The idea here is that there will be a "standard" foreach task (and
friends) in a repository of optional tasks, it will just not be part
of the very core of Ant (just like many current built-in tasks will
probably be demoted to optional tasks - <sql>, <cvs> and many others).

Stefan