> > The only point that was not generic enougth is the default input > > file. It is build.xml in ant and I wanted build.gant. > > I recall that I was involved in similar discussions, it could have been > when I put together the JavaFront prototype here on the list or later in > some off-list discussion. Ahh, the thread starting here > <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200811.mbox/%3C91dd9a4f08 >11180944m46bfa9ecs3eb8564a5e2d1...@mail.gmail.com%3e>
Cool, thanks for finding that thread. > > I know Jean-Louis BOUDART has been working on plugging different > frontends into EasyAnt so maybe we could join forces - Jean-Louis, are > you reading this? > > > I thought about the ProjectHelper providing the proper default input > > file. But as I looked into the sources of ant, it appears that the helper > > is created a way too late for that purpose. Would it be reasonable to > > instanciate the helper at the arguments parsing in the Main class (see > > Main#processArgs) ? > > I think it would, in particular if you consider the use case of maybe > supporting more than one ProjectHelper implementation in parallel (see > the old thread) like use groovy if it is a goovy build file and fall > back to ProjectHelper2 if it is xml. > > > Then there is also the problematic about the ant and subant tasks which > > are expected a priori to launch ant with the pure xml frontend (I am > > right to see it this way ?). > > I think the configured ProjectHelper is used, isn't it? This probably > means we need support for multiple project helpers if <ant> and friends > should eb able to chose one based on the format. The suggestion made in the thread you undig from the archive is quite interesting. There would be a default ProjectHelper which would define which default input file ant should look for, and if a file is specified the extension would designate the ProjectHelper to use. I looked into bugzilla, I have not found any patch about this. Then I will look into coding an implementation. Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
