See the following regarding adding your task to the list of external tasks: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#adding-external-tasks
As for the defining line of what goes into core Ant, a good rule of thumb is that anything that once would have been added to the optional tasks portion of Ant would NOT be accepted into core Ant today. :) A dead giveaway is interaction with and/or dependency upon other tools (in this case Maven). The optional tasks represent (IMO) the greatest complexity of Ant's own buildfile and give the Ant team responsibility for maintaining compatibility with external tools over which they have no control in most cases. Features continue to be added to Ant to support and encourage the use of third-party tasks, so an optional task included in Ant is no longer considered "the way to go." Thanks, Matt --- Russell Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:06:39 -0700 (PDT), Matt > Benson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Russell: This sounds cool but would be considered > to > > be an external task. If you have or can find a > place > > to host it we will be happy to add it to the > External > > Tools and Tasks section on the Ant site. > > OK, I will get back to you with a hosting location. > Are new tasks no > longer being considered for inclusion in ant? Or if > they are, how are > decisions made on what to include? > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]