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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@ebinteractive.com.au>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Some Thoughts on Ant 1.3 and 2.0
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:02:08 +1100
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Forgot one of my favourites. I have in the past proposed supporting the
multithreading of tasks within a target by the addition of a boolean async
attribute. I think this is a valuable feature for running test harnesses on
servers, without the need to start multiple ants. I have used this with
JUnit tests on a Weblogic EJB server.

Thomas Christen has asked about having parallel targets within a project. I
don't really support that as I think it is significantly more complex than
multithreading tasks within a target. Nevertheless I think we should examine
both ideas as part of this process to see if either of them has merit in a
future ant.

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Conor MacNeill
conor@cortexebusiness.com.au
Cortex eBusiness
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:conor@m64.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2000 2:20
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Some Thoughts on Ant 1.3 and 2.0
>
>
> Stefan,
>
> I would include on the list of items for discussion, the removal of
> implicit filtering. I think explicit filtering such as
>
> <copy>
>   <filter refid="foobar"/>
> </copy>
>
> is much clearer (remove the filtering attribute). A potential
> build-breaker, of course.
>
> Conor
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