On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:56 +0100, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > > But here we seem to be talking about a new family of generic tasks, > > > If this works well, we could deprecate the old tasks and eventually > in a > > > couple of versions remove them. > > > > > > Jose Alberto > > > > generic is good, provided > > -we can have a conceptual model that is consistent across all SCM > > systems. > > -we can deal with extensibility through antlibs. I suppose you'd > have > > a new type, > > SCMbackend that every backend would implement; declaring a new > > backend would > > let you register it. > > > > Question: could you just get away with some mixin import lib that > > declared the appropriate macros for the appropriate platform? > > > > Well, it seems that the maven people have such a thing to some extend > already. This new antlib tasks could use that support. > > Hey, maybe maven-scm could host and provide the antlib for these tasks. > Or maybe they are willing to move it to our sandbox. > I still think, it will be a good idea if we continue to get involved to > help define the overall picture from the ANT perspective.
With my Maven SCM Committer hat on I would not object to hosting the Ant tasks under Maven SCM if that's what you guys feel is right. Your call but I'm +1 to having them under Maven SCM. > At the end of the day we would have to decide if we would like to > provide these libraries as part of our release, provide some 3rd party > goodies that you can download as part of ANT, or just tell people about > their existence somewhere. -- Trygve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
