Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-24 Thread Bruce Atherton
Coming into this thread I didn't really have an opinion, but I like this reasoning. +1 for both. Nicolas Lalevée wrote: Well, the main use case I see of target groups is about using them between different build scripts, as also noted in the documentation Stefan just wrote. So the extension

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-22 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:53 -0500, Sandu Turcan atur...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand the term extension point sounds generic and appears to accept anything the system operates on, like tasks, types, targets, dependencies etc. In this case we're only talking about targets. I think a

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-21 Thread Matt Benson
On Dec 20, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On 2009-12-19, Gilles Scokart gscok...@gmail.com wrote: But still I would take the risk to turn this thread into a brainstorming : absolutely. What about extension-point ? Sounds good. I don't think I weighed in on

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-21 Thread Sandu Turcan
On the other hand the term extension point sounds generic and appears to accept anything the system operates on, like tasks, types, targets, dependencies etc. In this case we're only talking about targets. I think a more explicit term that has the word target in it would work better. On Mon, Dec

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-20 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-12-19, Gilles Scokart gscok...@gmail.com wrote: But still I would take the risk to turn this thread into a brainstorming : absolutely. What about extension-point ? Sounds good. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-20 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-12-19, Sandu Turcan idls...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if introducing a new name can be avoided alltogether. What if depends=prefix* meant depends on all targets that start with prefix? For example: target name=compile depends=precompile-* /target Wouldn't that achieve

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-19 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
How about some thing like target name= category=/ or category name=/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Naming-of-target-group-tp26844828p26854047.html Sent from the Ant - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-19 Thread Matt Benson
On Dec 19, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Gilles Scokart wrote: 2009/12/18 Stefan Bodewig bode...@apache.org Hi all I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being proposed, but I may have missed some and

Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi all I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be good anyway. I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1). (1) What do we want

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1). (1) What do we want to call the new element that behaves quite a bit    like a target but has a dependency list that can be extended? - moving-target (very familiar for people working in IT) or - mutable-target ?    (a) target-group    (b)

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
Stefan Bodewig wrote: Hi all I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be good anyway. I understand that (2) is very dependent on

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Matt Benson
I have to say, I think goal is semantically reasonable--that said I would want to use it. Let's just say I'd like to emphasize the dissimiliarities between Ant and Maven. ;) phase is not terrible, but seems to imply that a buildfile represents a single story which is not always the

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-12-18, Kevin Jackson foamd...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1). (1) What do we want to call the new element that behaves quite a bit    like a target but has a dependency list that can be extended? - moving-target (very familiar for people working in

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:12:25 +0100, Stefan Bodewig bode...@apache.org wrote: Hi all I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be