I am thinking of committing the keep-alive feature:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21144
Do any of the ant commiters have a problem with this feature?
I am mostly neutral. I can see its value in some cases (install, but think that it may lead to grief down the wire. The nice thing about <try>/<catch> (that I do want to add to the core) is that it forces the developers to think about failures and how to handle them. the keepgoing concept says 'ignore all errors'; it is failoneerror scaled up.
Testing can be handled with the junit failureproperty, so it is really installation and special test actions that are being handled. Installations is very much a secondary function of ant. [And I prefer installations to unroll cleanly on failure, not keep going]
If you are going to commit it
-make it a command line option
-lots of messages at both info and verbose, esp something at info that warns when the system keeps going
-make sure that try/catch logic takes priority
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