I don't want to be political, but what's the point on working on abortive standards. It is cumbersome technically to support alternative java-like languages, and this may take away momentum for existing java support and future developments. Also, I fail to see the point to support a language that will forever only run on one environment: Windows.
regards, Joaquin On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote: > Is anyone out there using Ant to compile java with Microsoft's J#? > > I can see three possible approaches: > 1. Extend the javac task to understand jc.exe (the J# compiler) > 2. Use an existing compiler type recognized by javac, e.g. jvc, > and then write a cover script to transform arguments into a > form expected by jc.exe > 3. Give up and just use the exec task instead of javac > > I'd really like to avoid choice 3. > I'm expecting to do choice 2. > But I'd love to have choice 1 possible, either because > someone has already done the work, or because it's > not that hard to do and I can just do it myself. > > Comments? Help? Please? > > Thanks, > > - Joe > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
