Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/01/2004 09:30:28 AM:
> If that's the case, can we assume that some tasks are missing where
people
> might expect them to be there?
Yes, if people were using:
- the nextrexxc task
- the stylebook task
- the VisualAge for Java tasks
- Xalan1 as an XSL processor
- XSLP as an XSL processor
My call was that there would be almost no plugins written using these
tasks. I googled on maven plugin and the appropriate task before deciding.
> Anyway, I'm ok with the change, but we should probably do it properly.
I'm
Can you expand on 'do it properly'?
> happy to break compatibility in this case and not include any optional
tasks
> and push them out to the individual plugins that need them and include
it in
> the next release notes as a gotcha.
Optional tasks were always problematic for users of maven, as they have to
know the magic classloader syntax to make them available. Very few people
do.
There are also new tasks in Ant 1.6 we can use to make ssh etc easier.
--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
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