From james.davidson@eng.sun.com Fri Feb 25 23:30:10 2000 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 12507 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2000 23:30:10 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2000 23:30:10 -0000 Received: from shorter.eng.sun.com ([129.144.251.35]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA14623 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ionic (d-ucup02-124-65 [129.144.124.65]) by shorter.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with SMTP id PAA00655 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:30:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <01f401bf7fe8$637670f0$417c9081@ionic> From: "James Duncan Davidson" To: References: <2657060.3160430124@turtle.coral.cs.cmu.edu> <38B675FA.70EFDE84@websitewatchers.com> Subject: Re: ANT's strange semantics and proposed change Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:31:06 -0800 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > It would be better to abstract the way ant gets its > configuration > by using the Configuration interface defined in the Avalon project (another > apache project), > and use their xml loader Let's not get complicated here. I like what the guys are doing on Avalon. But I see no reason to lean on more complicated frameworks when a very simple introspection solution works just fine. I'm not a big fan of trying to overgeneralize a decent solution just because it can be done. There needs to be a more concrete reason for generalization besides the desire to do so. .duncan