(Apologies in advance for the length of this post) The feeling has been growing in me that a future version of Ant should abstract the concept of file I/O with an interface that can supply InputStreams and OutputStreams, or Readers and Writers if we can restrict to character content--which would be quite possible--or both. With this type of abstraction a property could be treated as a file (existing properties could be read-only and throw appropriate Exceptions when overwrite attempts were made. This could add, I feel, a good deal of flexibility for a fairly low cost.
I guess the motivating factor to this idea is my intense dislike of the clutter of temp files, especially when they do very little. Comments? -Matt __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
