It is too bad that Ant does not itself support a pluggable architecture.Doesn't Ant 1.6 (now in beta 2 IIUC) provide for this? I think we looked at introducing some external extensions sort of along those lines for dealing with blocks build but decided it was sufficient to wait for ant's next release. My memory is fuzzy on this though.
Now you end up replicating such a build environment in every new
project. If something changes in cocoon that impacts the build system
you need to update all those separate instances. I started on a Maven
plugin for cocoon some time ago exactly for this reason. But
unfortunately haven't been able to work on it lately. Maybe something
for CTP if that would prove to take off.
Geoff
