----- Original Message -----
From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [JJAR] Keeping it interesting :)
> Conor MacNeill wrote:
> >
> > From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > The issue I have with ant, and I realize that this is orthogonal to
the
> > > wishes of the ant community, is that for whatever reason, the ant-ers
> > > want ant to be an 'installed application', or so I'm told.
> >
> > Who told you that? :-)
>
> To my best recollection, it was Vince who brought it up when we were
> discussing Cactus, and was confirmed by sam, I think.
>
hum .. hum ... I don't know what ant-ers think but I know that in the
current state, Ant is supposed to be run as an 'installed application' (see
Ant documentation). Meaning you type 'ant xxx' from the prompt. I don't know
about Ant2 but viewing Ant as a component would really be neat I think.
There are lots of applications that would need the power of Ant from the
inside (a first example that comes to mind is an IDE) ...
> >
> > > That's fine
> > > for a dedicated ant-using developer - it's a great app and I use it
that
> > > way - but that's inappropriate for something that should be able to be
> > > used as an installer and build bootstrapper as well.
> > >
> >
> > I have been doing some experiments for Ant-2 ideas and one of these was
to
> > be able to run Ant remotely. In the experiments, I was able to get Ant
> > running with just three local classes, a class to find the Ant
components,
> > a classloader and the class providing main(). One application of this
idea
> > is a simple installer for Ant but I think it can also support your ideas
> > here.
>
> That sounds *perfect*. I would love to see that.
>
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> Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vincent.
