Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Kev Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Antlib idea seems to me to be the best way of refactoring Ant into a component based system where individual tasks can be released without having to release a new version of Ant (the main purpose of Antlibs was this as far as I'm

Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Brett Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/05, Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -release a separate ant-execution library, at exactly the same frequency as ant point releases. I'm not sure that this is required. Surely an Ant release can just use the last

Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: Here's my non-committer 2pennies worth... I think it would be beneficial to refactor Ant for some of the commons-libs (commons-exec for example), I also think it'd be useful for Ant 1.7 to splitoff as many tasks as possible into antlibs. The Antlib idea seems to me to be

Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-21 Thread Brett Porter
On 9/21/05, Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, we can discuss it :) I do actually agree that execution and JAR files ought to be structured so that they can be reused. The code in there is some of the best debugged stuff out there in Java for doing both. Ok - good that we agree on

Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Loughran
Brett Porter wrote: On 9/21/05, Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, we can discuss it :) I do actually agree that execution and JAR files ought to be structured so that they can be reused. The code in there is some of the best debugged stuff out there in Java for doing both. Ok -

Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-20 Thread Brett Porter
Hi, I'm basically looking for some opportunities for sibling Apache communities to work together in an area we have some overlap, and wanted to see what thoughts the Ant community had on this. I've invited folks on the Maven lists to follow this thread here too, so if you see some strange faces -

Re: Maven and Ant collaboration on task codebase

2005-09-20 Thread Kev Jackson
Here's my non-committer 2pennies worth... I think it would be beneficial to refactor Ant for some of the commons-libs (commons-exec for example), I also think it'd be useful for Ant 1.7 to splitoff as many tasks as possible into antlibs. The Antlib idea seems to me to be the best way of