Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-22 Thread Costin Manolache
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On 21 May 2003, Stefan Bodewig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen that Costin and Conor prefer that antlibs specify their URI themselves. Could anybody please explain why OK, let me try to summarize your answers: Peter says - letting the user chose the URI may

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-22 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Sounds great. - Original Message - From: peter reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ant Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly On Saturday 17 May 2003 19:59, Costin Manolache wrote: My main concern is the same

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-22 Thread peter reilly
On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:29, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2003, peter reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I will chop it up into a sequence of patches. Thanks. The first patch adds the add(Type) introspection method and implements this in condition, filterchain, tokenfilter,

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-21 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 19 May 2003, peter reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) are build script authors allowed to specify arbitary URIs for ant type definitions? I do not think this is a good idea. I've seen that Costin and Conor prefer that antlibs specify their URI themselves. Could anybody please

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-21 Thread peter reilly
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 08:21, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2003, peter reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) are build script authors allowed to specify arbitary URIs for ant type definitions? I do not think this is a good idea. I've seen that Costin and Conor prefer that

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-21 Thread Costin Manolache
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2003, peter reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) are build script authors allowed to specify arbitary URIs for ant type definitions? I do not think this is a good idea. I've seen that Costin and Conor prefer that antlibs specify their URI

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
Costin Manolache wrote: That's consistent with most of the current uses of XML namespaces - you don't see users picking their favorite XHTML or XSLT namespace URI. To elaborate on this: the original intention of namespaces was to provide universal names for elements. This means a:section

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-20 Thread Costin Manolache
peter reilly wrote: There are a number of issues here. 1) are build script authors allowed to specify arbitary URIs for ant type definitions? I do not think this is a good idea. I agree - I also preffer URIs that are interpreted in a certain way ( package names ), however we could

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread peter reilly
Hi Costin, I will reply to these e-mails separately, if this is ok. On Saturday 17 May 2003 19:59, Costin Manolache wrote: Sorry for the late reply, I had almost no acces to internet ( or time ) last week. My main concern is the same as Conor's - having this decoupled and done in few steps.

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread peter reilly
On Saturday 17 May 2003 20:13, Costin Manolache wrote: peter reilly wrote: for example: typedef resource=org/acme/mydefinitions.xml classpath=classes/ to allow loading of tasks/types from different 3rd party with some tasks haveing the same name, I have added a prefix attribute.

RE: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 17 May 2003 19:59, Costin Manolache wrote: I think taskdef should be treated as a special typedef with TaskAdapter as adapter. ( i.e. use typedef as the main definition mechanism, and taskdef as a shortcut for types with

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread peter reilly
On Saturday 17 May 2003 20:16, Costin Manolache wrote: Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion.

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread peter reilly
On Monday 19 May 2003 11:50, Wannheden, Knut wrote: Peter, acme:hellp xmlns:acme=NSURI This would allow arbitrary NSURIs ( for people who like meaning-free URIs) and allow the classpath association. I do not want meaning-free URIs. I want ant to ignore URIs that it

RE: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 19 May 2003 11:50, Wannheden, Knut wrote: I don't quite see why it would be impossible to have meaning-free URIs. Nothing is impossible..., but it is difficult to have meaning-free URIs and to support (as in ignore) other

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-19 Thread peter reilly
Yikes!! There are a number of issues here. 1) are build script authors allowed to specify arbitary URIs for ant type definitions? I do not think this is a good idea. 2) what should ant do with URIs that it does not recognize? a) use current method - unknown elements b) ignore

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Sorry for the late reply, I had almost no acces to internet ( or time ) last week. My main concern is the same as Conor's - having this decoupled and done in few steps. peter reilly wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2003 07:56, Conor MacNeill wrote: I would prefer to use the XML schema attribute

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-18 Thread Costin Manolache
peter reilly wrote: for example: typedef resource=org/acme/mydefinitions.xml classpath=classes/ to allow loading of tasks/types from different 3rd party with some tasks haveing the same name, I have added a prefix attribute. taskdef resource=net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-18 Thread Costin Manolache
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion. I was thinking maybe we do not need to look further and

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-15 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Thu, 15 May 2003 12:56 am, peter reilly wrote: I have merged the ant-type code into my antlib code. However it uses a magic attribute name ant-type to achieve the effect and not as discussed before - the namesspaced attribute name like - ant:type. I can easily do a name-spaced attribute

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-15 Thread peter reilly
On Thursday 15 May 2003 07:56, Conor MacNeill wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2003 12:56 am, peter reilly wrote: I have merged the ant-type code into my antlib code. However it uses a magic attribute name ant-type to achieve the effect and not as discussed before - the namesspaced attribute name

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-15 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
This is true, but difficult to do. Some of the implementations of the different features change/improve if other features are present. For example the implementation of onerror uses the new anttypedefintion class. The implementation of the psuedo task antlib uses the add(Type) mechanism rather

antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion. I was thinking maybe we do not need to look further and we could commit this contribution ?

RE: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion. I was thinking maybe we do

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jose Alberto Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like for someone to explain how ejbjar, jspc, serverdeploy can have vendor dependent weblogic, jboss, etc. within this model. Assume you have a weblogic antlib that contains them - and you use the namespace weblogic

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread peter reilly
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 08:50, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion. I was thinking maybe we do

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread peter reilly
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 10:49, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am having a look at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19897 This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this mailing list concerning

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Wed, 14 May 2003 07:49 pm, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: Well I have not given the fight on the need for roles and separate symbol-tables for different Types. Well, I explained what I disliked about your roles proposal a long time ago :-).

Re: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly

2003-05-14 Thread peter reilly
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 13:23, Conor MacNeill wrote: ant-type polymorphism is not a priority for me, Pity - it solves most extensibility problems :-). Hi Conor, et al I have merged the ant-type code into my antlib code. However it uses a magic attribute name ant-type to achieve the effect