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 84767 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 07:25:57 -0000 Received: from dnai-216-15-97-206.cust.dnai.com (HELO kali.betaversion.org) (216.15.97.206) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 07:25:57 -0000 Received: from apache.org(dhcp-a-0.betaversion.org[192.168.1.100]) (2522 bytes) by kali.betaversion.org via smail with P:esmtp/R:internet/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:27:13 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Sep-21) Message-ID: <38BE1757.EFB3240C@apache.org> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:25:11 -0800 From: Pierpaolo Fumagalli Organization: Apache Software Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: What flavour of scripting? References: <85256895.00391AE2.00@d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com> <38BD0436.7EB8D34A@apache.org> <38BD9D3B.7BBBA9BB@us.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > This to me is crazy. Everyone of us is inventing its own version of the javac > task to fulfill their own needs. The end result is a gazillion of tasks that > no one knows what are they for. The whole point of having a way to > combine tasks in ANT is to avoid of versions of the same taks just > to solve my little corner example. Otherwise build.xml files will become less > understandable than Makefiles. I agreed... I enumerated what I nedeed and what I'm going to get one day or another... > > You need a volvo, I need a tigra, you need those features, I don't need > > them, and more importantly, I don't want to see, use or having anything > > to do with them. My Ant jar is 180kb uncompressed. I don't need 50k of > > those, and w/ JAXP now I don't even care about all the parser issues. In > > my short experience of java programming, I'm not needing anything else. > > But other need more. I think ANT is not for your eyes only. Are you reading what I'm writing??? Second paragraph: Pierpaolo Fumagalli wrote: > I'm not voting -1... I'm just saying that _I_ am not going any further. I REPEAT _DO WHATEVER YOU WANT_. I ALREADY HAVE WHAT I NEED. > > My requirements? > > - rmic > > - javac > > - jar > > - javadoc > > > > So what do you do when your next project requires some more tasks? It will not. For sure. Pier -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- - P I E R - stable structure erected over water to allow the docking of seacraft -------------------------------------------------------------------- - ApacheCON Y2K: Come to the official Apache developers conference - -------------------- --------------------